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Australia to begin carbon capture

Australia opens its first underground carbon storage facility in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a...fic/7325782.stm

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I do not agree with this method at all. We can find easier ways to cut down the amount of CO2 we are putting in the atmosphere. I think we need to use those methods rather than pumping a bunch of CO2 into the ground.

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Sounds like a good plan. By pumping the carbons back into the ground where Gas used to be you are just returning that which was already in the ground. That could be faulty logic, but this seems like a good plan. The waste has to go somewhere.


In my opinion we should just go go strictly Nuclear plants anyway. They are much more environmentally friendly.
From
How Much Nuclear Waste Is In The United States?
Consider the following:

That really is not that much compare to the same amount of waste created by all the coal or gas powered plants creating the same amount of power

All the waste ever produced by Nuclear Power in the United States would fit in this hole in the ground in Australia.

Nuclear Power all the way!

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The fact that they want to put it in the ground in a liquid form is bothersome. Pumping super cooler liquid into a hot underground is not the wisest of things to do. Once it is down there and the heat changes it back to gas how much pressure is going to build up before something happens?

As far as nuclear plants while they are clean and more environmentally sound what happens if something goes wrong. I believe the better type is nuclear fusion instead of the current fission.

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There are risks and environmental issues in every energy production endeavor. We just need to find the energy producing mechanism that is most efficient and productive while being the safest.

Bio-fuels(from foodstuff) are a joke as they take important food resources from those who can least afford them and change them into an inefficient (as compared to oil-based fuels) fuel source. If you consider the price of corn in the last few years and the starvation cost to the very poor this seems like the worst choice to me.

Now if they could create a bio-fuel from a non food/noxious weed you might have a usable product.

For now, the best way is still smelly old fossil fuels. And if you can store the byproducts of this in the ground where it came from, it seems like a possible solution. CO2 gas is naturally found in the ground in the form of Volcanic Gases.And it would be nearly impossible to pump as much of the Gas to cause any real damage.

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I would rather use wind or switch grass to make into ethanol fuel. The switch grass produces more ethanol than corn does and it does not take away food.

It may not be switch grass but it is grass that works better than corn.