The federal stimulus devoted $2.4 billion to pilot projects aimed at capturing carbon dioxide emissions and making coal-fired power plants “cleaner.” Such plants account for a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. “Yet carbon capture and storage remains the elusive holy grail of the coal industry, an idea that could contain the damage inflicted by coal-burning power plants but a technology that remains expensive, energy intensive and largely untested,” a Washington Post article noted. “Even optimists say it will not be commercially available for another six to 10 years. Pessimists say it might take much longer, and may never be ready for widespread use without attaching a punishingly high price to carbon.”
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What about all those television commercials about “Clean Coal?”
Who ever heard of business lying to promote a political agenda?
Carbon emissions is only one of the problems from coal fired power plants. Another even more serious problem, especially in western Kansas, is the amount of underground aquifer drinking water drawn out by these water gulping power plants. The Ogallala aquifer is being drawn down dangerously low and power plants will finish the aquifer off.
Everybody ready to drink regurgitated sewage treatment effluent from our polluted rivers?
Everybody ready to drink regurgitated sewage treatment effluent from our polluted rivers?
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Mmmmmmmm….Taste a bit nutty.
Thought Sunflower had all those pesky issues solved.
Storage of the CO2 gas may also be an unsolvable problem, as explained in the Wa Po article — where, costs, legal issues, etc.
(The Waxman-Markey bill would give the first six gigawatts of plants — equal to around seven average-sized plants — a $90 per ton subsidy in the form of free allowances.)
Translated, that means you, the taxpayer will be paying power companies that use coal, a subsidy.
Because of the way, state energy commissions are aligned and configured, there will also be an adjustment cost in your monthly bill for electric bill to cover the (cough) administrative costs of any carbon capture passed directly to the consumer.
So, the Democratic Congress will have stuck every consumer in the United States with two more bills that you really didn’t want, just to cover the co2 sequestration bill.
Thanks Dems
I have attended a few technical conferences on carbon capture and remain VERY skeptical. It still seems to be that the reservoir will leak and the CO2 will be released.
The only answers IMO are (a) reduce CO2 production or (b) true carbon sequestration via photosynthesis.
According to a Senator Steve Morris (R-Hugoton) he knows everything needed to do the latter. He should demonstrate that at the existing Sunflower plant.
And the possibility of reservoir leaks is an important legal liability (and financial) issue for a long time into the future.
But you CONs promised us all those problems were solved with “Clean Coal” technology.
Didn’t you?
Were you lying then or are you lying now?
Monkeyhawk posted August 17, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Were you lying then or are you lying now?
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Both. . . they’re lying all the time.
Like Harry Truman said about Nixon –
“He lies even when he doesn’t have to, just to keep his hand in the game.”
Carbon capture key but remains elusive
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I suggest hiring a Navajo tracker and purchasing a large net…maybe some snares, you’ll catch that SOB!
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Monkeyhawk
Posted August 17, 2009 at 2:04 pm | Permalink
But you CONs promised us all those problems were solved with “Clean Coal” technology.
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Now Monkey, give credit where credit is due.
I believe that was the Obama
In Pennsylvania
During the campaign.
In fact, here is the Obama now, promoting that Clean Coal technology. Yes we can! Woo hoo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GehK7Q_QxPc
As well as being a Marxist, Obama is also a promoter of Clean Coal.
I’ll bet that singe the feathers off of Monkey’s ass.
Au, contraire –
If “Clean Coal” technology actually exists, I’m all for it. So is President Obama.
So where is it?
You CONs promised.
Produce the goods or admit you’ve been lying all this time.
The coal industry says it’s here and now.
Now prove it.
So where is it?
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In the ground.
outlander,
Has Obama claimed that there is CCS technology that is usable on a large scale? No.