On Apr 15, 2007, at 8:34 PM, new.morning wrote:
Per Vaj's post, I think separation and sequestering of CO2 from coal plants is the key. Coal to syngas technologies essentially convert coal to hydrogent that is then used as a emissionless fuel for power plants or fuel cells, all other emissions are captured prior to that. As an added bonus, using captured CO2 for bio farms, particualrly things like algae (5000 gal of fuel/acre vs 18 for corn) has huge potential. And the syngas plants can take bio algae as well as coal as feedstock. Both energy sources feeding plug-in hybrid vehicles, getting rid of dirty internal conbustion, would cut CO2 emmissions by over 80%. I did not think such was possible until recently.
Very interesting. What changed your mind?
RE nucclear, until the waste (nuclear) storage and proliferation issues are fully addressed, and i don't see any good solutions on the horizon, I can't get too serious about nuclear.
The point is, it probably doesn't matter if we like the nuclear energy option, industry and the government are likely going to push them to the forefront.
