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, wasteThere’s more than one kind of water stress
It’s still raining. No news there. It’s going to rain all weekend as well. It’s probably going to rain all next week. Rumour has it the UK can expect some sunshine, for a few minutes on a Thursday, in January 2009. By which point we’ll all be living in houses built on stilts and travelling everywhere by canoe. Flowers and condolence cards for the death of summer sunshine can be sent to the Met Office.
tags: carbon footprint, carbon sequestration, climate change, floods, global warming, methane footprint, quick fixes, rain, virtual water, water footprint, water stress, water table
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