[Another view on the Boundary Dam CCS project.]
http://www.newsoptimist.ca/article/20141009/BATTLEFORD0303/310099989/-1/battleford03/sun-is-best-nuclear-fusion-plant
Sun is best nuclear fusion plant
October 9, 2014
Dear Editor
I watched Premier Wall’s recent speech as he opened the carbon capture
and storage facility for a small portion of the Boundary Dam coal-fired
electricity plant. He said that this was a great step forward, that this
would help reduce global warming and enable coal fired plants to produce
clean, inexpensive energy and was only possible because the people of
Saskatchewan are "innovative." Unfortunately almost everything he said
was incorrect.
The premier acknowledged that this project was not possible without big
bucks from the taxpayers. Over a billion dollars to “capture” 90 per
cent of the carbon from less than 20 per cent of this one plant. Even
the 90 per cent figure is misleading. The carbon produced by building
and operating a 66 km CO2 pipeline will not be captured. The carbon
produced by mining the dirty brown coal will not be captured. The carbon
produced from hundreds of associated plant emissions will not be
captured and the carbon produced by 80 per cent of the plant will not be
captured.
The premier seems to be unaware that the least expensive electrical
power is now wind power at four cents per kWh. Just the carbon capture
part of this plant's operation will cost over four cents per ‘clean’ kWh
produced. The next inexpensive electrical energy is utility solar.
Either the premier doesn't know this or he doesn't know that the sun
shines in Saskatchewan.
In order for CO2 to be a liquid it must be pressurized or cooled.
Creating that liquid and keeping it in a liquid state takes energy and
producing energy in a brown coal plant produces carbon. The premier
even indicated that pumping this liquid into an oil field so that more
oil was forced to the surface and then burned would somehow reduce
global warming.
It appears that Premier Wall does not really believe that global warming
is the massive problem that virtually every peer-reviewed scientist says
it is. It appears that he thinks that this so-called carbon capture is
setting a good example and that this multi-billion dollar technology
will be adopted by poorer countries that can hardly afford dirty coal
plants. This is not going to happen and this is not setting a good example.
If premier Wall was really “innovative” he would realize that the days
of dirty coal are over and there are far less damaging and less
expensive ways to produce electricity. The way forward is to utilize a
free, clean nuclear fusion plant that is safely located 150 million kms
away. This plant produces and delivers to us thousands of times the
energy we require and it will last for billions of years. It is time for
politicians like Premier Wall to do their homework and provide truthful
leadership.
Bob Fearn
British Columbia
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