Comments on: UPDATE: FutureGen Project Killed http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/01/update-futuregen-project-killed/ join the ecolution Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:56:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mr Bush To America: Maybe Next President Will Care About The Environment | SCREAM to be GREEN .::. join the ecolution http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/01/update-futuregen-project-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Mr Bush To America: Maybe Next President Will Care About The Environment | SCREAM to be GREEN .::. join the ecolution Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:30:47 +0000 http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/01/update-futuregen-project-killed/#comment-357 [...] nearly a billion dollars to clean coal research and development. “  Clean coal.  Sure.  I know about FutureGen.  It got shutdown before it started - probably because Texas didn’t win.  Coal is still a [...] [...] nearly a billion dollars to clean coal research and development. “  Clean coal.  Sure.  I know about FutureGen.  It got shutdown before it started – probably because Texas didn’t win.  Coal is still a [...]

]]> By: Kiashu http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/01/update-futuregen-project-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Kiashu Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:21:59 +0000 http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/01/update-futuregen-project-killed/#comment-109 I would not be too unhappy about the canning of the project. Burying CO2 does not seem to be a brilliant idea, have you ever heard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos" rel="nofollow">Lake Nyos</a>? You may not realise that the ground that has water or oil or natural gas in it, it's not vast underground caverns, it's porous rock, like a big underground rocky sponge. So it's not as simple as an underground cavern would be, like a big bottle - put the stopper on and it's closed forever. It's much more complex to keep safe. And this is a new technology, so mistakes will be made. Much better not to burn the stuff to make CO2 in the first place. Calling coal-fired electricity generation "green" because they're pumping it underground is like saying, "Well, that nuke station buries the waste under our houses near the aquifer, so it's environmentally-friendly!" I would not be too unhappy about the canning of the project. Burying CO2 does not seem to be a brilliant idea, have you ever heard of Lake Nyos? You may not realise that the ground that has water or oil or natural gas in it, it’s not vast underground caverns, it’s porous rock, like a big underground rocky sponge. So it’s not as simple as an underground cavern would be, like a big bottle – put the stopper on and it’s closed forever. It’s much more complex to keep safe. And this is a new technology, so mistakes will be made.

Much better not to burn the stuff to make CO2 in the first place. Calling coal-fired electricity generation “green” because they’re pumping it underground is like saying, “Well, that nuke station buries the waste under our houses near the aquifer, so it’s environmentally-friendly!”

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