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Rule 1: Do Not Drink CO2 EPA will develop industry regulations for carbon sequestration		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:21 AM on 12 Oct 2007 Setting aside questions of technical challenges and commercial viability, the U.S. EPA has announced that it will develop industry regulations for carbon sequestration by power plants. By next summer, expect exciting new regulations to "ensure there is a consistent and effective permit system under the Safe Drinking Water Act" for injecting captured carbon dioxide d ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, energy, news, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Iron fertilization A sound plan, or a load of manure?	JMG	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Take a look at this conference on dumping iron into the oceans to boost carbon pickup.
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, oceans (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race: New Republic edition Editorial questions the sequestration promise	David Roberts	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The New Republic has a fine, fine editorial about coal today. It calls into question whether spending up to $40 billion on the ten-years-hence promise of carbon sequestration in order to save the coal industry from obsolescence is the best investment we could make to fight global warming. The weak link in the argument is here: Nor is it clear that sequestration will be economical: One GAO analysis predicts that electricity from carbon- capturing plants will co ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy (all these topics)

The Coal Nine Yards Coal industry asks for still more handouts, and Washington lends an ear	Brian Beutler	19 Sep 2007	Muckraker
We're gradually learning how the U.S. government will approach our country's energy needs in the carbon-constrained future -- and if you were envisioning a future free of mining the earth for dirty energy, you should probably check the optimism. Same coal, same coal. Photo: iStockphoto Two important hearings on Capitol Hill earlier this month strongly indicated that we're stuc ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Parsing the carbon storage debate 'Carbon-friendly' utilities may not necessarily be in the public interest	Sean Casten	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Following the discussion under David's latest post about Edwards' position on carbon capture at coal plants, I thought it appropriate to point out a few things about the electric business that are critical to this debate -- but not widely appreciated. An electric utility is a weird amalgam of lots of historic political philosophies -- most of which are in direct contradiction to modern ideas, but are difficult to repeal.According to the modern pro-market ideal, busine ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, climate, energy (all these topics)

Edwards not as green as you thought: When a ban isn't a ban Why Edwards' 'ban' on coal plants does little good against climate change	David Roberts	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
John Edwards. Photo: kk+ via flickr One of the most meaningful steps the U.S. can take to fight climate change is to forbid construction of new coal plants unless they capture and sequester their carbon emissions. If we allow more dirty coal plants, all our other efforts will be in vain. That's why James Hansen and Al Gore return to the subject so often. Dem presidential candidate Chris Dodd has called for such a policy in blunt language: "The Do ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Edwards and 'compatibility' John Edwards would not require that new coal plants sequester their CO2 emissions	David Roberts	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
There was some question in this thread about what exactly John Edwards means when he says he would "require that all new coal-fired plants be built with the required technology to capture their carbon dioxide emissions." Would he require that new coal plants sequester their emissions, or merely that they be built in such a way that they could sequester their emissions at some point in the future? I called the Edwards campaign today. The answer is the latt ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'Smooth the transition' Carbon sequestration is a costly alternative to renewables, not a transition to them	David Roberts	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Half the reason I wrote this post was to respond to this article, and then I forgot to mention it. Check this out: Developing commercially viable carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology should be a major priority for companies and governments all over the world because renewable energy sources will not be able to replace oil and gas quickly enough, a senior executive at Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Tuesday. 'Without CCS, fossil fuel use would have to be cut ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, energy (all these topics)

CS BS Coal insider reveals the truth about carbon sequestration	David Roberts	03 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Does the coal industry really believe that carbon sequestration can make coal-fired power plants climate friendly? It's got legislators and even some green campaigners believing so. Given the coal industry's troubled relationship with the truth, perhaps some skepticism is warranted. The inimitable Sir Oolius points me to this post from M.J. Murphy. Murphy, obviously a masochist, overheard some intriguing things recently in the Climate Change Skeptics news group. Rec ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy (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)

Trees They're not going to save us	David Roberts	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Oh well, it was a nice thought: A decade-long experiment led by Duke University scientists indicates that trees provide little help in offsetting increased levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Note to the hordes of indignant commenters lunging for the CAPS LOCK key: this does not mean trees are worthless. Trees do many wonderful things. They're like ponies and ice cream, only awesomer. I'm going to go hug one as soon as I'm done with this post. Yay for tree ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

George Soros vs. the planet Soros, Goldman Sachs financing destruction of Brazilian forests	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Well, that whole beating George Bush thing in 2004 didn't work out, so now billionaire financier / Democratic fundraiser / anti-Communist crusader George Soros is back to his first love: making money -- apparently even when it comes at the expense of the planet. Sabrina Valle of the Washington Post is reporting that Soros is one of the biggest investors in growing sugarcane ethanol in the Brazilian cerrado, 'a vast plateau where temperatures range from freezing to ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, carbon sequestration, consumerism, deforestation, ethanol, rainforests, wildlife (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)

Timber industry rent seeking Making things out of wood sequesters carbon, turns out	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
One telling point that carbon tax advocates make against cap-and-trade systems is that they create an enormous incentive for rent-seeking. Now it seems the timber industry is getting in on the game. Via Greenwire (sub rqd), this has my BS alarm all a-ringin': [Timber] Industry groups are lobbying Congress and making a public relations push to promote privately managed forests as carbon sinks -- a bid for a place in potential cap-and-trade schemes for greenhouse gas e ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, logging (all these topics)

Washington Post notes Planktos The new alchemy: Turning iron particles into gelt	JMG	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Turns out we here at Grist got a preview of his 'fringe environmentalist' testimony to Congress. Too bad the Post didn't mention his cold fusion background; that really puts this scheme into perspective. It's just the eco-version of the same old same old. (There's one born every minute, and two to take his money ... )
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, geoengineering, oceans, waste (all these topics)

Liquid coal op-ed Come and read it	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've got an op-ed on the Guardian's opinion site about -- what else? -- liquid coal. Here's how it starts: They say the first thing you should do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. But if there's one thing the coal industry loves, it's digging. Generating electricity by burning coal has ravaged the climate, but it's made coal barons in the US rich. They worried for a while that global warming would mean the end of the gravy train - they're the o ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Why geosequestration is another distraction Always keep the bait dangling just out of reach	JMG	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The July/August 2007 issue of World Watch magazine (produced by the Worldwatch Institute) includes a concise demolition of carbon geosequestration in the form of a letter to the editor by one Luc Gagnon, 'a senior advisor on climate change for Hydro-Quebec.' I'd quote the letter but the Worldwatch site doesn't have it online yet. So I went searching for more by Gagnon and found this short, powerful PDF making essentially the same point (in almost the same language). An intere ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Low-hanging fruit Dirt cheap carbon	biodiversivist	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Great interview over on Mongabay with Daniel Nepstad, head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program. When it comes to immediate carbon emissions reductions, the biggest bang for the buck is to stop deforestation of the tropics. This revelation would have much less relevance if there were not also a mechanism envisioned to achieve it called the RED initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation). As with anything, the concept has its critics. In my unqu ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Not-so-easy listenin' A couple of podcasts for your commuting pleasure	Daniel Bachhuber	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've run across these shows in the past couple days, and thought fellow Gristmill readers might like to hear them too. The first is Science Friday's 'Hour One' from last week. There is a segment on carbon sequestration, which I have yet to form an opinion on, and also one on generating hydrogen. The second, which I'm actually listening to as we speak, is about the economic benefits of 'going green.' Apparently being environmentally conscious is a smart business move ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, green living, hydrogen (all these topics)

Feel the carbon sequestration love BP pulls out of its one actual carbon sequestration project	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
Everyone seems to agree that carbon sequestration is going to save us from global warming. That's why the Scottish government announced it would have a competition, awarding the creation of an actual carbon sequestration facility with a big fat financial reward. BP spent $50 million just preparing to build such a facility. But then the Scots wanted a little more time to assess it -- another year -- which led BP to scrap the whole project. A technology that costs so ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (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)

Polluting to save the planet: RealClimate disapproves And why wouldn't they?	Gar Lipow	04 May 2007	Gristmill
RealClimate, a blog run by leading climate scientists, thinks Planktos's scheme to dump iron particles in the ocean to make plankton bloom and sequester carbon is 'thin soup.' I have some extended quotes from David Archer on the subject below the fold. But if you are interested, read the whole thing. In spite of public relations claims by Planktos representatives in comments, it appears that most of the scientific community does not think highly of the Planktos claim ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, geoengineering (all these topics)

Today in Big Coal Shenanigans everywhere	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The WSJ has a story today about the high hopes riding on the few large-scale carbon-capture demonstration projects under construction. The entire global political and economic elite desperately wants carbon sequestration to work, so they can keep us hooked up to the fossil fuel mainline. But as the WSJ notes, it's a tough row to hoe: Unlike oil or gas fields, power plants aren't always conveniently located near geological formations where carbon dioxide can be store ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race Still	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
An extensive Christian Science Monitor analysis reveals that "nations will add enough coal-fired capacity in the next five years to create an extra 1.2 billion tons of CO2 per year." In all, at least 37 nations plan to add coal-fired capacity in the next five years -- up from the 26 nations that added capacity during the past five years. With Sri Lanka, Laos, and even oil-producing nations like Iran getting set to join the coal-power pack, the ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy (all these topics)

Sequester Requester Coal sequestration a near-future necessity; one utility gets a jump start		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Sequester Requester Coal sequestration a near-future necessity; one utility gets a jump start If coal's going to be viable in an emissions-regulated future, we need to hurry up and learn the how-tos of carbon sequestration, says a new study from MIT. The U.S. should take the lead and fund three to five emissions-burying demo projects within the decade, says the report; meanwhile, companies should be charged for CO ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, news (all these topics)

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