Sorry, I misspoke. Don't know if the AAAS session will be webcast. The NAS even this Tues will, however. Greg
>________________________________ > From: Greg Rau <[email protected]> >To: Ronal W. Larson <[email protected]>; Geoengineering ><[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 4:06 PM >Subject: Re: [geo] Session: Going Negative: Removing Carbon Dioxide From the >Atmosphere (2015 AAAS Annual Meeting (12-16 February 2015)) > > > >Ron, >1) Hopefully I won't be the only non-presenting geo lister there to intake and >relay the revelations from our Academicians, but then it is being webcast so >you can listen for yourself (see link I sent below). > > >2) Thanks for the heads up about NeverGen. What a colossal, tragic waste of >time and money. Is it time yet to invest a fraction of the $B's spent on CCS >to instead research methods that do not expensively make concentrated CO2, >stuff it in the ground, and hope for the best? How CCS became the CO2 >mitigation RD&D monopoly (with BECCS now in the wings) is something worthy of >a mystery novel if not a criminal investigation. > > >Greg > > > >> >> >> >>________________________________ >> From: Ronal W. Larson <[email protected]> >>To: Greg Rau <[email protected]>; Geoengineering >><[email protected]> >>Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 3:00 PM >>Subject: Re: [geo] Session: Going Negative: Removing Carbon Dioxide From the >>Atmosphere (2015 AAAS Annual Meeting (12-16 February 2015)) >> >> >> >>Greg and list: >> >> >>1. Thanks for the alert. I hope you can report back on the discussions at >>the two AAAS sessions you have identified below. >> >> >>2. The AM session has this introduction: To augment these, technologies >>exist that remove atmospheric carbon dioxide and can potentially keep it out >>of the atmosphere — bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, direct air >>capture, and biochar. These technologies have benefits and downsides and vary >>drastically in predicted cost. >>Greg: My quick review of the papers suggests they are all only/mostly on the >>first (BECCS). Joe Romm three days ago wrote (at >>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/05/3619195/futuregen-clean-coal-project-dead/ >> ) >>on the cancellation of funding for Future Gen. (Follows similar CCS cutbacks >>in the UK and Australia.) >>a. I hope you can report on any dialog on how these funding cutbacks will >>affect CDR projections for BECCS. >>b. I wonder what the author of the words “vary drastically in predicted >>cost” meant. >> >> >>3. The biochar community has been woefully lacking in putting together >>similar AAAS sessions. (I restrict my travel these days to places where >>something is going for more than one session and/or someone else is paying >>the bill.) But I did find that there are at least two student biochar >>posters next week: >>a. https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Paper15882.html “Utilizing >>Biochar to Mitigate Nitrate Leaching and Increase Crop Yield in South Central >>WA”. One sentence saying: “Biochar is an effective additive for combating >>excess nitrate leaching that will potentially appeal to agribusiness due to >>the substantial increases in crop yields documented in this study.” >> >> >>b.https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Paper15395.html “Can No-Till >>Farming with Biochar Increase the Growth of Soybean Plants?” A final >>sentence again: >>“The results confirm that biochar with no-till farming produces the greatest >>growth in soybean plants.” >> >>4. Very unfortunately, the biochar community has been paying little >>attention to the CDR side of biochar. I’d like to know whether the >>presenters of these two posters have put anything in them on the CDR >>significance of their work? Or only looking at biochar from the >>(non-competing) soil perspective? >> >> >>Ron >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>On Feb 8, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Greg Rau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>Upcoming AAAS session on CDR this Sat. SRM session in PM. See you there. >> >> >>https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9663.html >> >>Greg >> >> -- >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>"geoengineering" group. >>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>email to [email protected]. >>To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. >>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"geoengineering" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to [email protected]. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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