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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Turning CO2 into gasoline A new way to waste energy	Joseph Romm	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last week, the NYT's Andy Revkin blogged about a federal laboratory that says it can take atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into gasoline: One selling point with Los Alamos's 'Green Freedom' concept, and similar ones, is that reusing the carbon atoms in the captured CO2 molecules as a fuel ingredient avoids the need to find huge repositories for the greenhouse gas. The only problem with that exciting statement is that it is almost certainly not true, a ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil (all these topics)

Vaporware	David Roberts	04 Feb 2008	Gristmill
It's a few days old now, but don't miss Tyler Hamilton's column on CCS in the Toronto Star. It focuses on Canada, but the story is basically the same: despite all the talk and hype, carbon capture and storage is a long, long way off, subject to enormous logistics problems, and uncertain to succeed even under the most optimistic projections.
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Carbon sequestration and the precautionary principle A guest essay from Peter Montague raises questions about the rush to sequestration	David Roberts	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- In response to a relentless stream of bad news about global warming, a cluster of major industries has formed a loose partnership with big environmental groups, prestigious universities, philanthropic foundations, and the U.S. federal government -- all promoting a technical quick-fix for global warming called "carbon sequestration." ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Industry's plan for us The many ways big money seeks to avoid reducing fossil fuel use	David Roberts	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- It now seems clear that the coal and oil industries are not going to allow the United States to curb global warming by making major investments in renewable sources of energy. These fossil fuel corporations simply have too much at stake to allow it. Simple physics tells us that the way to minimize the human contribution to global warming is to ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation, climate, renewable energy, fossil fuels, energy, geoengineering (all these topics)

Rule four of offsets: No enhanced oil recovery Injecting CO2 into oil wells is not real carbon sequestration	Joseph Romm	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Capturing CO2 and injecting it into a well to squeeze more oil out of the ground is not real carbon sequestration. Why? When the recovered oil is burned, it releases at least as much CO2 as was stored (and possibly much more). Therefore, CO2 used for such enhanced oil recovery (EOR) does not reduce net carbon emissions and should not be sold to the public as a carbon offset. Yet a company, Blue Source, LLC, proposes to do just that: to capture the CO2 from a f ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, oil (all these topics)

Rule three of offsets: No geo-engineering Smacking down a bad idea	Joseph Romm	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I know you've all been eagerly waiting for this (don't worry, I don't have many more rules). I got sidetracked by last week's offset hearing. Offset projects should deliver climate benefits with high confidence -- that's a key reason trees make lousy offsets, especially non-urban, non-tropical trees. An even more dubious source of offsets is geo-engineering, which is 'the intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment' (PDF) to counter ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, geoengineering, oceans (all these topics)

The CO2 sings 'Bury me, buuuu-reee me, bury me, across the world' Charcoal carbon sequestration -- birth of a new CO2 removal wedge?	JMG	04 May 2007	Gristmill
I would love to hear Graham Nash and David Crosby rerecord their old 'Carry Me' song about agrichar and removing carbon from the atmosphere while revitalizing soils: 'Bury me, buuuu-reee me, bury me, across the world ...' This is sounding so good it's scary -- like I am being set up to have my bubble burst when it turns out to violate one or more basic physical laws, or only be net negative by ignoring some huge emissions somewhere in the process, or whatever. But for toda ...
Topics: biofuels, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Peak oil, coal, and bizarre optimism	David Roberts	28 Mar 2006	Gristmill
So last week Salon ran a big story on peak oil by Katharine Mieszkowski. It was decent, though focused a bit too much on the loony fringes. I guess the temptation to do that is irresistible when trying to make a long story about the Hubbert Curve and Venezuelan oil reserves compelling. In response, John Quiggen (at the usually excellent Crooked Timber group blog) wrote a response I can only characterize as bizarre. But the comments under the post don't treat it a ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, oil (all these topics)

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