Ever Notice

How ground water drainage on soil with fine sediments from 6 feet up looks just like river beds from 5000 feet up. The pattern of erosion and areas of deposit build up are the same. Well look at the Taklamakan desert in China, (N 32.86113 E 68.40088), on any satellite image from Google or ACME mapper 2.0 or what ever you like. Does it look like a glancing blow from a comet or asteroid started directly east of the Taklamakan desert basin finally digging into the Earths crust propelling huge amounts of its dust and mineral deposits as far as Bagdad. Possible the entire impact site and debris field has been slightly distorted by the Himalayan Mountain Range. Or is it possible this impact happened before the this range was developed by the tectonic plates pushed up in this area creating the Himalayas. Crazy sure, but sometimes things are really what they appear. Ok start laughing and tearing me apart now but I still pose the question and will learn from any and all sources willing to constructively criticize and educate a beginner. Thanks.

The Successful Capturing of Co2

According to an article that I was just reading at Tennessean.com, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a technique that successfully removes CO2 in flue gas from power plant smokestacks and buries it deep into geologic formations. In fact, the article states that injection of CO2 works in west Texas; in Oklahoma; in Alberta, Canada; and off Norway in the North Sea.

For years, I’ve been hearing that one of the biggest catalysts of climate change is the emissions of Co2 from the coal burning process. However, I’ve always said that coal burning represents a small fraction of the total burning by the 6 billion people on earth. Remember, coal is ultimately old decayed plants in which all of the live plants on earth emit much more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of the coal burned in the world. Now, if we have a way of disposing it, what are we waiting for?