Robert get practical.

CO₂ capture is already done at some coal power stations and buried underground but it is expensive to do and this invention is a much cheaper way to do the same thing.

Well, the solar and windy farms are proving to be a bit like Tesla cars - kind of useless but they could be used to power CO₂ capturing from the air as well as powering electrolyzers to produce hydrogen and oxygen from fresh or sea water as is already being done overseas.

As far as thorium goes, India is still trying after about 40 years. And the Yanks got it going but abandoned it for bomb production.

Chevron Gas produces lots of CO₂ as they split it from natural gas and they are now burying it underground in sandstone.


Lee, CO₂ capture is now easy and cheap. The synthetic fuel is probably oil or methane.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/carbon-capture-to-fuel-is...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/06/carbon-engineering-liquid-fuel-c...

https://www.wartsila.com/twentyfour7/in-detail/synthetic-fuels-supporting-wartsi...

Won't they be happy with this new invention then ?

That is kind of a Greeny denier site. It just says NO to everything just like the Greenies do.

I am hesitant to challenge the highly respected Lee. But this does seem to clash with his veracity.


There are currently 23 large-scale integrated CCS projects in operation or under construction. Significant projects include:

Boundary Dam power station
The world’s first large-scale CCS project in the power sector commenced operation in October 2014 at the Boundary Dam power station in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Petra Nova
Petra Nova, which came online in early 2017 and is the second CCUS coal plant, is the world's largest post-combustion carbon capture facility installed on an existing coal-fuelled power plant and plans to store more than 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

The Sleipner and Snøhvit CO2 storage projects
These projects in Norway have stored over 16 million tonnes of CO2 into offshore deep saline formations.

Abu Dhabi CCS Project
The project came online in 2016 and is the world’s first commercial CCUS facility for the steel industry, capturing 800,000 tonnes of CO2 and, injecting it in maturing fields to enhance oil recovery (EOR)

Tuticorin CCU Project
The unsubsidised, fully commercial CCUS project from Carbon Clean Solutions in the port of Tuticorin, India has been able to significantly reduce the costs associated with capturing the CO2


See the whole story here

https://www.worldcoal.org/reducing-co2-emissions/carbon-capture-use-storage

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 7:24pm:



That's a good idea & here is a video about it:



Carbon Dioxide Tucked into Basalt Converts to Rock

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 6:47pm:



Firstly you were talking coal and CCS. Now it appears there may be a second one - Petra Nova. Which apparently is marginal operationally.

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 6:47pm:


Are gas plants.

Abu Dabhi is taking CO2 from a steel smelter.

Tuticorin is taking the CO2 and making baking soda.

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 8:50pm:


Exactly how many in operation and how many under construction?

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 8:50pm:


Yes. And they say it is scaleable. The proof of the pudding would be in the eating.

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 8:50pm:


And there is no need for it now. Increased CO2 is greening the planet. Making crops grow better.

"Globally, vegetation greening has occurred over a larger area than vegetation browning (high confidence)."

latest IPCC report Summary for Policymakers.


And increased CO2 greening the planet is improving natural plant sequestration.

juliar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2019 at 5:36pm:


yeh and where will you buy the hydrogen from socko ? I bet you you'll be praying that there is a fool bowser down the road from you and not in another state LOL

All battery electrical vehicle owners will enjoy free chargeups at home from rooftop solar whilst socko and its retarded mates will be once again taking it up the arse at the hydrogen fool bowser thats if they ever build any which has been coming for the last half a century  LOL

But Bobby I realize now you like to wander in fantasy - but nice beneficial fantasy.

I looked up lots of stuff and India is still trying to get their thorium going after about 40 years and instead have gone to uranium even tho they don't have much.

They need the US to tell them how to do it as the US got a thorium reactor going years ago but let it grow dust while they concentrated on bombs.

Thorium has taken a backseat to uranium because of bombs and so thorium has not been developed to practical designs and won't be for many years as it is just too hard.

Even China has put them on the back burner.

Thorium just can't get a go
https://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/02/16/the-thing-about-thorium-why...


CO₂ emissions
There are lots of manufacturing processes that pour out CO₂ especially heating processes and electricity has only a minor role in this as the heat is provided by gas or coal.

Consider the Chevron Gorgon natural gas project where the natural gas is mixed with lots of CO₂ which was until recently exhausted to the air but is now being buried in sandstone.

Lots of CO2 coming out here
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/28/industries-sectors-carbon-em...