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?
