[Discuss] [Mostly OT:] Visualizing Canada's Carbon

[Arthur Ralfs]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-01-22 15:27-0800 pw wrote:
>
> ...something entirely off-topic, but most interesting nevertheless.
>
>> ...]Requires permanently burying 376,646,357.25 tonnes of wood
>> to remove from atmosphere.
>
> And don't forget the energy cost (and associated carbon emission) of
> burying
> that amount of wood).  The big oil companies talk a lot about how they
> are
> working on a technical solution to bury carbon dioxide, but I think it
> cannot possibly work because of the huge energy costs which more than
> defeat
> the purpose.  I suspect this is the modern equivalent of the
> perpetual-motion machine scams, and done for the same reasons (the greed
> motive).
>
Also don't forget the example of the African village (in Cameroon I
think) that was
suffocated to death by a cloud of carbon dioxide escaping from an
extinct volcano.
Burying gigatons of carbon dioxide as some people are proposing might be
setting
us up for an unintended environmental disaster in the future.

Arthur Ralfs