Off the top of my head, my favorite applications of captured CO2 are to use mineral processing, to carbonates, or enhance growth, of closed-system algae, or to make METHANOL, by adding H2, but hey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage -------------------- MIT got some: http://sequestration.mit.edu/ -------------------- Pre-combustion, post-combustion, and oxy-fuel combustion: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/carbon-capture1.htm -------------------- http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=566 http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/shel...sands-carbon-capture-storage-project-1.943150 http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/index.html -------------------- China, as usual, is getting it on: http://www.sej.org/headlines/china-plunges-carbon-capture-tech-emissions-cuts-and-exports
A quick and painless way to sequester CO2 is to stop recycling paper (45 million tons in the US). Recycled paper is slightly more expensive as new, so there is no added cost.
Carbon sequestration is only important if you buy the AGW fairy tale. The best use for CO2 is growing algae at an industrial rate for biofuel. More in another thread.
An Algae.Tec 40-foot standard container processor takes piped-in CO2 and grows algae. But more CO2 is available, to make methanol.
A natural factory is available for carbon sequestration. It is called a tree. Make companies reclaim marginal land by planting and caring for the new forests. We could reclaim deserts.
The US suffered clear-cutting, in the 19th Century, so large forest stands were depleted, by 1900. Tree-planting started getting serious, in the 1950s. Drought following deluge has led to failure of pine forests, all over North America, which have become infested, with pine beetles, and so, during extended drought, the pines can burn down. During deluge, land erodes. US AND Canadian forests aren't doing well enough. What's your point, Pollyanna was a Disney-girl, who became famous, for optimism?
Where is the "forest primevil" that once covered the State of Indiana? Read Gene Stratton Porter....she predicted the effects of deforestation way back.....she died in 1927.
We need to re-green all desertified and polluted areas, period. This will require media, to lay down a matte, for trees to sink roots, in non-arable land. We will need mangroves, in all kinds of places, where they don't now grow. The North American pine forests are drought-ravaged, so pine beetle infestations have made them increasingly vulnerable, to wildfires. We need more trees, as soon as some political gits figure this out.
google the groasis waterboxx...you may be surprised...the idea came from bird poop. Also the forest have to be managed... underbrush needs to be kept at a minimum...and controlled buring...yes burning.... can prevent wildfires. And we ned diverse forests...not monocultures of quick grow pine.
Groasis Waterboxx, by a Dutch inventor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groasis_Waterboxx http://www.groasis.com/en http://www.popsci.com/bown/2010/product/aquapro-holland-groasis-waterboxx Sizzliscious!
