Jed Rothwell wrote. > > > Frederick Sparber wrote: > > >Don't leave out waste heat from nuclear power plants heating algae ponds, > >Jones. Plenty of "sequestered" CO2 to pipe to them, and it would > >help reduce cooling tower water usage, too. > > Where is "sequestered" CO2 near a nuclear plant? As I said, they > build these things far from cities, and also far from fossil fuel > plants. Or are you suggesting they should pipe CO2 from a fossil fuel > plant a few hundred kilometers away? That might work. I suppose it > does not take much energy to pump the gas. > That 1040 Megawatt Arizona Public Service natural gas fueled power plant is "about 50 miles west of Phoenix. So is the 3,900 Megawatt Palo Verde Nuke Plant.
CO2 from ethanol plants and other sources is easy to compress to liquid for transport by truck, rail or pipeline (even as a mix with natural gas in off season). > > I must say though, I would much prefer to see them tear down the > coal-fueled plants and build nuclear plants or wind turbines. I > suppose you can pump CO2 from natural gas-fired plants, which will be > with us for a long time to come, alas. > > - Jed
