Text 5722, 83 rader
Skriven 2007-12-15 20:50:36 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB KLAHN (1:123/140)
Ärende: Presidential Candidates.
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Hello BOB!

13 Dec 07 08:44, you wrote to me:

 RC>> If we got into mass ethanol production, could you imagine
 RC>> the uproar???? Instead of pointing our fingers at such
 RC>> companies as Exxon, BP or even Halliburton, you would have
 RC>> the beer and booze companies getting in on the game and
 RC>> being the next evil doers?

 BK>  Now that I had not even considered.

It would make sense as they already would have the infrastructure in place.

Imagine that, "Excuse me while I fill up at a Jack Daniels Station"

 BK>>>  Yes, the power industry seems to be determined to sink that.
 BK>>>  They needed strict controls from the beginning. Only they
 BK>>>  substituted short sighted thinking instead.

 RC>> Um, Bob, I think the Three Mile Island incident gave many
 RC>> pause.

 BK>  It did, but the industry has fallen down over and over.

Our utility company is looking into building a Nuke Plant in a county east of
here, most electricity.

To the naysayers of Nuke Power, France has been generating its electricity from
nuke power plants for 34 years now, now up to 90% of it to be exact.

 RC>> I also keep hearing about suggestions that fossil fuel
 RC>> plants capture their CO2 emmisions and pipe it into
 RC>> underground containment. Thats scary.

 BK>  Oh, yeah. How much do they think they can sequester?

Not enough to quell the environmental concerns much less the safety risks we
talk about below.

 RC>> Lake Nyos in Africa, sitting on top a volcanic formation,
 RC>> was accumulating Co2 naturally, keeping it in dissolved
 RC>> suspension in its depths, something upset that mechanism,
 RC>> it spewed massive amounts of this Co2 into the surrounding
 RC>> countryside, killing 1800 people and nearly all wildlife in
 RC>> the vicinity.

 RC>> Imagine if we used this underground containment and a
 RC>> earthquake breached it, construction accidents? What if it
 RC>> gets into ground water and makes its way into a body of
 RC>> water, our own Lake Nyos??

 BK>  One scenario had them pumping the CO2 into deep lakes, or into
 BK>  the ocean depths. The idea being the cold water will hold it
 BK>  down. When I heard about that I thought about Lake Nyos also.
 BK>  Think of it with the CO2 production of a good part of the US as
 BK>  the gas source.

Documentaries I have seen on the Nyos incident, had them talking about how the
gas was contained in its depths, and they speculated that it became
super-saturated and it could hold no more or something as mundane as a log fell
into it, causing enough agitation.

 RC>> [Horrors]

 RC>> I just thought of this, how much Co2 do we release into the
 RC>> atmosphere from uncapping soda, beer or champagne?

 BK>  If the Soda CO2 comes from the atmosphere, it could mean an
 BK>  average short term reduction. However, Beer and champagne
 BK>  produce their own CO2.

 BK>  Ok, re-enact prohibition. For CO2 producing drinks, that is.

I am waiting for Al Gore to suggest this..

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Ross
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