<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Umbra on offsetting emissions from flatulence]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/flatulence/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:28:12 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/flatulence/1 Hehey.

Good one Umbra!

But seriously, imagine this of you will?

A fossil fuel powerplant emitting all it's air pollution into algae growing solar cogeneration facilities with collectors mounted on the powerplant buildings and smokestacks.

The CO2, mercury, and NOx are removed from the water by the algae.  The algae, with solar energy added, is turned into biofuel, methane for instance, and the mercury is filtered out of the methane digestor.

The methane (poot)is then burned in the powerplant, saving coal combustion, and the CO2 from the methane combustion is sent back through the solar cogeneration facility to make more biofuel.  

The CO2 becomes a part of a closed loop.  And sequestration is acomplished, eureka!  Maybe those green tags could fund some of this activity?

]]> Hehey.

Good one Umbra!

But seriously, imagine this of you will?

A fossil fuel powerplant emitting all it's air pollution into algae growing solar cogeneration facilities with collectors mounted on the powerplant buildings and smokestacks.

The CO2, mercury, and NOx are removed from the water by the algae.  The algae, with solar energy added, is turned into biofuel, methane for instance, and the mercury is filtered out of the methane digestor.

The methane (poot)is then burned in the powerplant, saving coal combustion, and the CO2 from the methane combustion is sent back through the solar cogeneration facility to make more biofuel.  

The CO2 becomes a part of a closed loop.  And sequestration is acomplished, eureka!  Maybe those green tags could fund some of this activity?

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