Time to quit pissing and moaning and switching to doing, Richard. My first iteration based on water-CO2 sent to a local university prof:
"Based on the CO2 absorption,-thermal-de-sorption properties of rainwater, streams, rivers, lakes, and seas that nature uses for moving CO2 about, I think gravity, solar,.wind, and stream-flow, and hydro engineering could be employed to extract Atmospheric CO2 cheaply and in huge quantities in an environmentally benign manner. Sequestering and storing it is another matter." "This could be easily tested in a lab using "stepped-plug flow" covered-uncovered water spreaders and heat lamps." Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: RC Macaulay To: [email protected] Sent: 2/13/2007 7:16:07 AM Subject: [VO]:Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize Fred wrote.. A 100 watt light bulb burns a pound of fossil-fuel carbon every 10 hours generating 44/12 = 3.666 pounds of atmospheric Carbon Dioxide out the power plant chimney. Howdy Fred, The UNIT # 1Fayette Power Plant ( FPP) located near Fayetteville Texas, a coal fired plant owned by civil entities including the city of Austin and Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is one of the dirtiest polluters on the list of the worse in the USA. Yes! It is owned and operated by the state of Texas and Austin. No scrubber. They kept promising to clean it up for years and now the word is they will be shutting it down as soon as they build Two more units Number 4 and 5. Our ranch is under the plume downwind some 9 miles. Over some 50 miles NW is ALCOA Rockdale Works ( a WW2 leftover) that mines lignite to fuel their aluminum plant ( another worse polluter). One of the largest landowners in Texas with some 30-60,000 acres stripped to the bone after 60 years of mining. Alcoa is negociating to shut the whole works down.. provided a little incentive is offered.. like hands free up in Iceland plus lotsa state of Texas and Fed money.. Yum!. Not to worry, the state and Feds are gonna do sum-tin' 'bout dit pollutin' all de nation. People over in Dime Box Texas just smile cuz they don' no nothin 'bout politishuns 'cept they lizes when the truth is in their favor. Richard
