There was a request by Senator Manchin of the Secretary of Energy regarding carbon sequestration.
The Senator should be aware of these efforts.
De Kalb, Miss. – If coal has a future, (click here) it lies here, off a state road lined with churches, crawfish billboards and boarded-up houses. One of the poorest places in America, this is also home to one of the most expensive power plants ever built.
The Kemper County Energy Facility is the showcase for the decades-old dream of “clean coal” — the idea that the country’s most important, but dirtiest, power source can be burned with minimal damage to the environment.
What Southern Company and its subsidiary Mississippi Power have constructed here over the past five years can rightly be described as an engineering marvel. Fifteen stories of metal scaffolding surrounds a labyrinth of steel, concrete and more than 170 miles of piping. When the Kemper plant starts to burn coal, there will be nothing else like it in the world: Instead of releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, it will capture 65 percent of that greenhouse gas and ship it off to an aging oil field, where it will be pumped underground to help produce valuable crude....
From my point of view, the injection of a gas into old oil wells will contribute to seismic activity. Rock is very leaky. The CO2 will find it's way to the surface again and probably in a short period of time.
We have seen sequestration of CO2 sold as ice chucks to transport companies such as FedEx and UPS. It isn't helpful. Those ice blocks of CO2 ultimately will be dissolved into the atmosphere in someone's garage. It doesn't work.
I think the proper name for CO2 ice blocks are called "Dry Ice." It is foolish of the transport companies to leave any CO2 dry ice open to air as it can cause severe damage to the skin, but, it is done.
To date, the best outcome to returning the Earth to function and 'in balance of it's gaseous layers' is prevention of CO2 to begin with. Carbon sequestration is not viable for the length of time it has been chased.
I realize coal gives the USA a very reliable source of energy. I know all that as a granddaughter of coal miners. But, coal is something the USA should hold in reserve to any needs in the future. There is a limit to how much Earth remains habital when it comes to Greenhouse Gases. Not every American can find their way to some kind of way station at Mars.
Coal is a fossil fuel. It needs to remain there for now.
If there is CO2 pumped into oil well, there also needs to be monitors that will pick up it's return to the troposphere at the site and in concentric circles around the site to the extent that particular vat of oil stretches beneath the ground.
De Kalb, Miss. – If coal has a future, (click here) it lies here, off a state road lined with churches, crawfish billboards and boarded-up houses. One of the poorest places in America, this is also home to one of the most expensive power plants ever built.
The Kemper County Energy Facility is the showcase for the decades-old dream of “clean coal” — the idea that the country’s most important, but dirtiest, power source can be burned with minimal damage to the environment.
What Southern Company and its subsidiary Mississippi Power have constructed here over the past five years can rightly be described as an engineering marvel. Fifteen stories of metal scaffolding surrounds a labyrinth of steel, concrete and more than 170 miles of piping. When the Kemper plant starts to burn coal, there will be nothing else like it in the world: Instead of releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, it will capture 65 percent of that greenhouse gas and ship it off to an aging oil field, where it will be pumped underground to help produce valuable crude....
From my point of view, the injection of a gas into old oil wells will contribute to seismic activity. Rock is very leaky. The CO2 will find it's way to the surface again and probably in a short period of time.
We have seen sequestration of CO2 sold as ice chucks to transport companies such as FedEx and UPS. It isn't helpful. Those ice blocks of CO2 ultimately will be dissolved into the atmosphere in someone's garage. It doesn't work.
I think the proper name for CO2 ice blocks are called "Dry Ice." It is foolish of the transport companies to leave any CO2 dry ice open to air as it can cause severe damage to the skin, but, it is done.
To date, the best outcome to returning the Earth to function and 'in balance of it's gaseous layers' is prevention of CO2 to begin with. Carbon sequestration is not viable for the length of time it has been chased.
I realize coal gives the USA a very reliable source of energy. I know all that as a granddaughter of coal miners. But, coal is something the USA should hold in reserve to any needs in the future. There is a limit to how much Earth remains habital when it comes to Greenhouse Gases. Not every American can find their way to some kind of way station at Mars.
Coal is a fossil fuel. It needs to remain there for now.
If there is CO2 pumped into oil well, there also needs to be monitors that will pick up it's return to the troposphere at the site and in concentric circles around the site to the extent that particular vat of oil stretches beneath the ground.
