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I wonder how Bioneers folks feel about carbon sequestration, ie. is the cost of the energy needed to sequester it worth the benefit and where and how (as in WIPP) is the carbon sequestered, for how long and with what eventual outocme? I came to this…
Terra Preta is aka biochar (modern fancy name). A very interesting substance; google biochar or Johannes Lehman (Cornell Professor, one of the leading researchers); also IBI, the International Biochar Institute. Making biochar converts biomass carbo…
Robert, short answer: no. Have you seen this week's "clean coal" ads on the web? They say 'see the site that makes clean coal possible.' Interesting word--"possible". Not a reality, not here and now. It amazes me in a society that invests so much ti…
Pumping CO2 into earth and/or space is inherently scary. It is using mechanistic thinking to solve problems caused by mechanistic thinking. According to the definition of insantiiy, that's ot the way to solve a problem (doing the same thing over and…
Thank you, Andrew! Pumping the CO2 into the Earth was the scariest possibility, even more so because it seemed to me to be the most likely. Thank you again for providing a link to the website. I'll certainly look into it. If you're correct, this ope…
The really interesting and sustainable for of carbon sequestration is terrestrial: in trees and soils. Soils can contain more carbon than the forests above them. Globally soils hold up to four times as much carbon as the atmosphere. Only at some poi…
Ah. here we go -> http://www.ourfuture.org/institute/
Lots of stuff to chew on here -> http://www.ourfuture.org/search/node/Katrina+vanden+Heuvel
Hi John:
You seem to know a good bit more about it than I do, but what you're written agrees with the little I've read thus far. What troubled me is that Secretary Chu (the American Department of Energy) was quoted saying that CCS is a feasible opt…
I read it on-line, Charley, and now it's gone. It was written by Katrina vanden Heuvel, who's the Editor of the Nation, and man named Robert Borosage, who's the president of a leftist think-tank (as it were?) named Institute for America's Future. Ma…
Hi Robert,
I did spend a bit of time looking in CCS and I think it is a misguided approach to trying to deal with GHG emissions. It adds enormous costs to energy production and comes with enormous risks - given it will still take 10-15 years to pro…
Oh. I was referring to "a story in the Nation magazine about a green industrial policy" that you mentioned.
Thank you for responding so quickly and for providing a starting point. CCS is Carbon capture and sequestration. WIPP is Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the controversial project for storing nuclear waste. CCS has short term and long term recommendatio…
Yes and yes.
You're from Santa Fe? From what I've seen, most (or many) of the Bioneers are from Santa Fe and you are in a grassroots mecca. I've only been here at the Bioneers site for a week or so, and it moves a little slow. But stick around. Her…
I wonder how Bioneers folks feel about carbon sequestration, ie. is the cost of the energy needed to sequester it worth the benefit and where and how (as in WIPP) is the carbon sequestered, for how long and with what eventual outocme? I came to this…
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