health and ecology
Ain’t no hole big enough to hide our sins forever (not enough holes, either)
A coal-fired plant in Germany is being heralded as being the first to employ ‘clean technology’ to dispose of its carbon emissions. All CO2 produced by the plant’s burning of coal will be separated, squashed to one 500th of its original volume and squeezed into a cylinder ready to be transported to a gas field and forced 1,000m below the surface into porous rock where it should—note that word, and the lack of certainty it conveys—stay until long after mankind has stopped worrying about climate change. Because we’ll either be long gone, or will have switched over to using non-polluting energy.
tags: carbon sequestration, CCS, CO2 emissions, coal, fossil fuels, landfill, methane, nuclear waste, pollution, sustainability, waste
