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.
Is landfill a clean option because we bury our rubbish, out of sight and out of mind? Is nuclear waste disposed of safely by burying it underground? They used to say yes about the former, but are less inclined to do so today; with the latter, opinions are deeply divided.
tags: carbon sequestration, CCS, CO2 emissions, coal, fossil fuels, landfill, methane, nuclear waste, pollution, sustainability, waste100 years before solar panels pay for themselves? Rubbish!
Why does anyone listen to what the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has to say? Most of the time they talk complete bollocks utterly disconnected from the real world. Now headlines are screaming that solar panels will take 100 years to pay for themselves, with the argument being that you’re better off getting loft insulation. Of course you should do that anyway, to avoid wasting energy, but the point of solar panels is to reduce your dependency on fossil fuels that will continue to rise in price and pollute the planet. If you only install solar panels to save money, you’re dumb—because you might–might–not save significant sums, that is not the point—and you’re already rich if you can afford them, thanks to this lunatic government of regressive, out-of-touch, brain-dead truth-deniers recently cutting grants for household renewable power by a whopping and insane 83 per cent.
tags: environment, fossil fuels, fuel costs, government, grants, insulation, renewable energy, reports, solar panels, sustainability
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