You say "no coal without CCS," without carbon carbon technology. I'm not convinced that carbon sequestration technology works. But in any case, what evidence is there that proven (or at least plausible) carbon sequestration programs are going to be put in place before the "coal to liquid" fuel production comes on line? There's no guarantee of this that I've seen. It looks to me as if this is giant environmental/climate gamble that the coal industry is undertaking, with no certainty that the necessary sequestration technology will be in place to handle the extra CO2 generated. If I'm wrong about this, and the Chinese, Indians and Americans all are carefully designing their new coal to liquid fuel production facilities to sequester CO2, please let me know.
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Don Libby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Don Libby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Global Change: 2731] Re: Climate MAYDAY - Emergency -- As "Coal to Liquid Fuel" Backers Move to Push for Production Simultaneously in China, India and the USA To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 10:43 AM From: John Fernbach Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:55 PM Subject: [Global Change: 2729] Climate MAYDAY - Emergency -- As "Coal to Liquid Fuel" Backers Move to Push for Production Simultaneously in China, India and the USA > >The new and unwelcome addition to already destructive fossil fuel >development >is going to be "coal to liquid" fuels, sponsored by private corporations >and >governments that see in these fuels a viable alternative to costly >petroleum. ><...> >The negative environmental consequences of these three new national >industries >could be disastrous, in the view of many energy observers. "Could be disastrous", yes, but not necessisarily so. The key is carbon capture and storage, which is made considerably easier by the coal gassification process compared with conventional combustion. For example, a large coal gassification plant in Beulah, North Dakota captures a pure CO2 stream and pipes it to Saskatchewan where it is injected underground for enhanced oil recovery. In my opinion, protest banners that say "No coal" should say "No coal without CCS". -dl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
