Posted on 03/26/2014 2:32:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
OSLO (Reuters) - A little-known technology that may be able to take the equivalent of China's greenhouse gas emissions out of the carbon cycle could be the radical policy shift needed to slow climate change this century, a draft U.N. report shows.
Using the technology, power plants would burn biomass - wood, wood pellets, or plant waste like from sugar cane - to generate electricity while the carbon dioxide in the biomass is extracted, piped away and buried deep underground.
Among techniques, a chemical process can strip carbon dioxide from the flue gases from combustion.
The process - called bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) - would make the power plants not only carbon-neutral but actively a part of extracting carbon dioxide from a natural cycle of plant growth and decay.
The technology could be twinned in coming decades with planting forests that absorb carbon as they grow, according to the study obtained by Reuters.
It would be a big shift from efforts to fight global warming mainly by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases from mankind's use of fossil fuels in factories, power plants and cars, but may be necessary given the failure so far to cut rising emissions.
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invest in biomassets.
Then let’s not do it.
Their 4% CO2 output is killing Gaia.
A solution to a problem that does not exist. To be resolved by an action that will not work. That is liberalism in a nutshell.
“Extracting carbon from nature” . . . that just sounds evil . . . playing God . . . a “carbon abortion” performed on nature (creation) itself. . . .
But of course they are absolutely certain of the intended and unintended consequences (/sarcasm)
The article says to make enough of the compound needed to capture the carbon would require an area the size of INDIA.
Shocking perhaps, for those who never studied the Carbon Cycle in High School Biology , but plants, algae and microbes are major modes of carbon fixing in nature as the use C02 as food.
Last I checked , weeds grow for free
Burning wood - it's the bleeding edge of technology innovation.
I guess they never heard of these things called “plants” (aka “flora”). They’ve only been around for a couple billion years so it’s understandable the U.N. would be unfamiliar. Funny thing about them, though, they’re relatively cheap and the only byproducts of their CO2 consumption are oxygen and food for the “fauna”.
How much of these trillions of dollars will find their way into Algore’s pockets? (Rhetorical question.)
Are they concerned about the oceans’ rising?
I have an idea! Have all schoolchildren in the world take one day off each week, and go to the seashore with straws. Have the children suck, and suck, and suck up all the water they can!
I haven’t worked out all the kinks, but it seems pretty practical to me.
Great! You busybodies give them a call and tell them how much it's going to cost, phone numbers are here: http://english.gov.cn/
These guys need real jobs, or real hobbies that would distract them from their dystopian visions. A few moral values, the kind that would give them a crises of conscience every time they think of a new scam, would help.
Well that's no good. There's no way to accumulate power or wealth off that.
Hmm... Anyone want to send me $5 a month to sponsor a carbon munching weed. You’ll receive a document including a picture and name of your weed in the mail, which can show to your greenie friends.
I wonder how many tons of carbon they say unicorns put out?
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near one of these sequestration locations. If one day the thing releases its contents for whatever reason, there are going to be a lot of dead and maimed people in the vicinity.
Such things could be interesting “weapons”.
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