Clean Coal
Posted: Jun 30, 2009 11:20 am
This just came to my attention. The problem with coal isn't just that the mountains are being ripped apart from the top down- it's where they plan to store an awful lot of waste! (a million tons per year) As a caver, I'm instantly wary of the following description of Clean Coal technology:
"The premise of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is that carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants can be captured before it enters the atmosphere and then stored underground in geological formations."
(my quote was taken from the following report by Greenpeace: "New Greenpeace report exposes CCS as a dangerous distraction"'
May 05, 2008. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/new- ... rt-exposes )
Since when has "bury it in the ground" been a good solution? Let alone 'clean'? I just thought I would put this out on the wires- as NSS cavers, I sort of feel we are stewards of the underground, and so this issue should concern us.
"The premise of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is that carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants can be captured before it enters the atmosphere and then stored underground in geological formations."
(my quote was taken from the following report by Greenpeace: "New Greenpeace report exposes CCS as a dangerous distraction"'
May 05, 2008. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/new- ... rt-exposes )
Since when has "bury it in the ground" been a good solution? Let alone 'clean'? I just thought I would put this out on the wires- as NSS cavers, I sort of feel we are stewards of the underground, and so this issue should concern us.