Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Stay out of the Gas Trap

H/T Left Behinds

Team Looks at Seafloor as Gas Trap

But what can you do with what will amount to tens of billions of tons of the gas [generated by burning coal]?

Pumping carbon dioxide into the earth or deep into the sea have been suggested. But some escape is possible in both cases.

Now a team of researchers propose what they say is a limitless, low-risk repository for carbon dioxide: seafloor sediments at depths and temperatures that would guarantee it would stay denser than the water above, and thus be permanently locked away.

I would suggest as LeftBehinds does that such a scheme would destroy all the economics of burning fossil fuels.

Then LeftBehinds goes on to support a revenue neutral carbon tax that I opposed (and continue to oppose) here.





posted by Jim VAT @ 5:57 PM

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