In reply to OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:34:24 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Also in the pipeline: A coal burning plant that puts out no carbon dioxide. >SCS Energy is developing a 750-megawatt New Jersey plant that will siphon >off the gas and pipe it far offshore for entombment beneath the Atlantic >Ocean. The SCS facility is about five years off and will likely be followed >by others. They'll be expensive... with initial costs 50% higher than for a >standard coal burning plant. But the value of carbon credits earned under a >coming climate control law will help offset that. [snip] ...since they are still creating CO2, they shouldn't get any carbon credits for this, particularly considering the fact that sooner or later all that buried CO2 will resurface as the oceans warm, or due to geothermal activity.
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