CO2 Capture and Storage

Piwoslaw · 06-04-09, 01:31 AM

With all of this global warming and carbon reduction talk, countries are looking for ways to reduce the amount of CO2 they spew into the air. One of the possiblities is CCS - CO2 Capture and Storage. Carbon dioxide is captured from the exhaust of powerplants, factories, etc., and pumped underground into deep geological layers. This allows coal-fired powerplants to call themselves "zero emission".

Somehow this doesn't excite me. I don't see it as "zero emission", or as solving the problem. I see it as sweeping the problem under the rug. Sort of what people do with their trash - instead of reducing, they just bury it underground. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind.

The problem is not about CO2, it's about where it comes from. The real problem is how people use and waste energy. If more money, and especially good will, went into not wasting energy when we don't have to and raising efficiency of what we need, we wouldn't be where we are today.

06-04-09, 01:31 AM	#1
Piwoslaw Super Moderator Join Date: May 2009 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 961 Thanks: 188 Thanked 110 Times in 86 Posts	CO2 Capture and Storage With all of this global warming and carbon reduction talk, countries are looking for ways to reduce the amount of CO2 they spew into the air. One of the possiblities is CCS - CO2 Capture and Storage. Carbon dioxide is captured from the exhaust of powerplants, factories, etc., and pumped underground into deep geological layers. This allows coal-fired powerplants to call themselves "zero emission". Somehow this doesn't excite me. I don't see it as "zero emission", or as solving the problem. I see it as sweeping the problem under the rug. Sort of what people do with their trash - instead of reducing, they just bury it underground. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind. The problem is not about CO2, it's about where it comes from. The real problem is how people use and waste energy. If more money, and especially good will, went into not wasting energy when we don't have to and raising efficiency of what we need, we wouldn't be where we are today.