ENERGY

What to Do With All That Carbon

We need a global technology center to find ways of capturing and burying greenhouse gases.

By Kevin Rudd | NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 31, 2008

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  • Posted By: Second_Opinion @ 01/02/2009 3:21:07 PM

    Wouldn't burying greenhouse gasses simply plant a time bomb for future generations to deal with? It would be much better to curtail their production in the first place. And forget about "carbon credits" they appear to be more myth than reality.

    • Posted By: bob_hall27 @ 01/03/2009 7:27:04 AM

      no burying them would just allow the earth to absorb them back to where they come from, but it is just a waste of taxpayer money since carbon being a major greenhouse gas is a myth at least to the extent of what man puts into the atmosphere. Man contributes .117% of the carbon that goes into the atmosphere this is a very small percentage and if we stopped doing everything we do today it would have no effect on the atmosphere. This like all the other things the government comes up with is a scam to steal from it's tax base. The only way renewable energy could possibly work right now is if we got rid of more than 2/3 of the population because there is no way to keep up with our consumption of energy otherwise. Unless we decide to live in shacks and caves there is not much we could actually do unless someone can actually change the laws of physics.

  • Posted By: expatincebu @ 01/02/2009 6:05:41 PM

    Carbon capture is another pie in the sky fossil fuel corporate propaganda. It ranks up there with "clean coal" as the biggest lies of our time.

    We could spend billions on proven, clean, safe renewable energy development or we can spend hundreds of billions to enrich corporate coffers for something that will never work.

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