"The Department of Energy committed yesterday to spend $1 billion in
economic stimulus funds to restart plans for a controversial coal-
fired power plant that promises to capture 60 percent of its carbon
dioxide emissions and trap them underground."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/
AR2009061202120.html?hpid=sec-nation
http://tinyurl.com/m228mq
What a waste of a billion dollars. Carbon dioxide gas left in that
form will eventually reappear, and it will be even more difficult to
clean up then.
A more promising technology might be a vast solar plus oil burner
power plant complex, where a cellulose containing algoil (algae minus
water) slurry is produced and burned in a pure oxygen environment so
as to produce pure CO2 for feeding the algae. The nitrogen byproduct
can then, in part at least, be used to combine with hydrogen to
produce ammonia products.
I think research on ways to produce building materials (replacing
wood for example) from coal might be more productive for the economy
long term.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
