Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Carbon Capture and Storage

New technology has allowed for coal-fired generator plants to call themselves "clean coal." By transporting their CO2 and other pollutants to storage facilities underground, under the oceans, or elsewhere. Capturing, and transporting to these proposed sites, along with this technology would not only raise the costs of electricity, but there is no long-term testing on these sites. If there was a small leak then this whole project would be useless. The chance of leaks are high, and leaching into the environment would be other possible consequences of trying to use this technology. This is really just a cope out for the electricity generating industry to stay privatized allowing for more money for the millionares and billionares who are currently producing this energy. I will be highlighting what will happen if we change to renewable technology, or a hydrogen economy in the near future tomorrow.

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