Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

I continue to be very skeptical about CCS. The economics of capturing CO2 from coal power plant emissions, transporting it to a suitable sequestering site, and then keeping it safely stored for thousands of years, seems unrealistic. I personally would much rather put my money to solar, wind and wave power generation.

Anyway, in sorting my bookmarked web pages, I came upon the above link, which is detailed and  relevant to what we discussed in this morning's class.....and Keith, I know you'll love all the $ figures.

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