Comments on: Carbon Capture “Vaporware” No Alternative to Real Clean Energy Technology http://carma.org/blog/carbon-capture-vaporware-no-alternative-to-real-clean-energy-technology/ What goes around comes around Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rod Adams http://carma.org/blog/carbon-capture-vaporware-no-alternative-to-real-clean-energy-technology/#comment-1104 Rod Adams Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:00:29 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=89#comment-1104 The real elephant in the room is the already known emissions free source of reliable, human controllable energy - atomic fission. Wind and solar thermal might have some utility, but they are never going to replace much more than a tiny fraction of the electrical power currently being generated by burning about 6 billion tons of coal each year. If you are really serious about looking for alternatives that can make a dent in coal consumption and you refuse to listen to the answers that people have for the questions about byproducts, weapons concerns, cost, and safety, then you are simply being self deceptive. There are legitimate questions, but there are also answers that get pretty darned close to solving the remaining issues that have slowed nuclear development. The one issue that we have yet to solve is the fact that the energy establishment and its supporting industries really LIKE the fact that their control of fossil fuel resources keeps the rest of us addicted. The real elephant in the room is the already known emissions free source of reliable, human controllable energy - atomic fission.

Wind and solar thermal might have some utility, but they are never going to replace much more than a tiny fraction of the electrical power currently being generated by burning about 6 billion tons of coal each year.

If you are really serious about looking for alternatives that can make a dent in coal consumption and you refuse to listen to the answers that people have for the questions about byproducts, weapons concerns, cost, and safety, then you are simply being self deceptive.

There are legitimate questions, but there are also answers that get pretty darned close to solving the remaining issues that have slowed nuclear development.

The one issue that we have yet to solve is the fact that the energy establishment and its supporting industries really LIKE the fact that their control of fossil fuel resources keeps the rest of us addicted.

]]> By: Jim Holm http://carma.org/blog/carbon-capture-vaporware-no-alternative-to-real-clean-energy-technology/#comment-1103 Jim Holm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:59:15 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=89#comment-1103 Excellent summary. I've put a link to this page on the first page of my web site. Good job. Jim Holm Excellent summary. I’ve put a link to this page on the first page of my web site.

Good job.

Jim Holm

]]> By: Peter Lydon http://carma.org/blog/carbon-capture-vaporware-no-alternative-to-real-clean-energy-technology/#comment-1080 Peter Lydon Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:24:21 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=89#comment-1080 Thanks for your piece on CCS. My sense is that its real logic has very little to do with its technical feasibility, or whether it is real or is vapor. Rather, it it has been created largely as a political sop to the coal industry. It has obtained deference from an extraordinary set of people, including the MIT group, but a careful technical and economic analysis that discredited it would clear the decks for discussion of real alternatives, and would be a great public service. Thanks for your piece on CCS. My sense is that its real logic has very little to do with its technical feasibility, or whether it is real or is vapor. Rather, it it has been created largely as a political sop to the coal industry. It has obtained deference from an extraordinary set of people, including the MIT group, but a careful technical and economic analysis that discredited it would clear the decks for discussion of real alternatives, and would be a great public service.

]]> By: Nancy Chapman http://carma.org/blog/carbon-capture-vaporware-no-alternative-to-real-clean-energy-technology/#comment-1068 Nancy Chapman Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:40:39 +0000 http://carma.org/blog/?p=89#comment-1068 Type your comment here. Are you communicating this message to those who are in a position to change their minds on "clean coal" ...i.e. how about Jay Rockefeller, Senator from W.Va. who's even backing a liquid coal for military uses and who seems to turn a blind eye on mountain top removal. There will be no West Virginia soon...just hopeless, streamless rubble. Do you ever forward your research to senate offices and the staffs who help formulate their policies??? Type your comment here.
Are you communicating this message to those who are in a position to change their minds on “clean coal” …i.e. how about Jay Rockefeller, Senator from W.Va. who’s even backing a liquid coal for military uses and who seems to turn a blind eye on mountain top removal. There will be no West Virginia soon…just hopeless, streamless rubble. Do you ever forward your research to senate offices and the staffs who help formulate their policies???

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