http://blocksindicator.com/2008/09/rudds-global-capture-and-storage-institute/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:02:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blocksindicator.com/2008/09/rudds-global-capture-and-storage-institute/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Rogerson Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:34:24 +0000 http://blocksindicator.com/?p=118#comment-88 It is tragic that so much money and time is wasted on carbon capture from coal. For every ton of coal about 4.5 tons of CO2 is produced. To capture CO2 you have to cool it from the towers, condense it and then reduce its temperature to freezing point. Then what do you do with it? You can bury it in the earth but the temperature of the earth increases approximately 50C for every one Km you dig down causing stress on the vessels. The cost of trying to pump CO2 into very expensive pressurized steel tanks will be enormous and leave the world with a legacy of huge dangerous containers that will eventually rust and rupture. It beggars belief that this nonsense is being promoted. Obviously it is an attempt by the coal industry to keep the "show going" until the bitter end. Australia has enormous potential in geothermal energy, wind and solar. Much of the world could adapt to the use of these forms of power. How can political leaders be so wasteful and so lacking in imagination? It is tragic that so much money and time is wasted on carbon capture from coal. For every ton of coal about 4.5 tons of CO2 is produced. To capture CO2 you have to cool it from the towers, condense it and then reduce its temperature to freezing point. Then what do you do with it? You can bury it in the earth but the temperature of the earth increases approximately 50C for every one Km you dig down causing stress on the vessels. The cost of trying to pump CO2 into very expensive pressurized steel tanks will be enormous and leave the world with a legacy of huge dangerous containers that will eventually rust and rupture. It beggars belief that this nonsense is being promoted. Obviously it is an attempt by the coal industry to keep the “show going” until the bitter end.
Australia has enormous potential in geothermal energy, wind and solar. Much of the world could adapt to the use of these forms of power.
How can political leaders be so wasteful and so lacking in imagination?

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