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| Summit Carbon Solutions Pipeline Project |
Alan Stein has a story up on The Epoch Times about how Summit Carbon Solutions is strong-arming farmers to sign on to their pipeline project. Okay, that sounds about right. Farmers are a prickly bunch and big companies are not known for their sweet disposition, so they're squabbling.
But what is going on here? What's this pipeline for? Something useful like natural gas or crude oil? No, nothing like that, they say they are planning to use to pump CO2 to North Dakota. They are going to collect CO2 from industrial processes, like burning fuel to make concrete or generate electricity, and pump it into this pipeline.
Given the amount of work and material necessary to implement such a scheme, I don't see how it could possibly work, and even if it did I think there are liable to be unforeseen events that will topple the whole house of cards.
Sounds to me like they are selling snake oil. They are drawing up all these grandiose plans and talking a big game hoping to collect a zillion dollars in grants and tax write-offs. Then someone will realize the decimal point in their pile of calculations is in the wrong place and their project is not going to work. At which point they will throw up their hands and say 'it doesn't quite pencil out', they will crawl back under their rock with as much money as they can grab and the whole project will vanish without a shovelful of dirt having been moved.
Via Zerohedge
Carbon Capture in any form, much less this sort of boondoggle, is bunk, dipped in a crock of fudge, rolled in poppycock, fried in snake oil and served by the ghost of PT Barnum wearing the Emperor's new clothes. An exercise in pointlessness and futility.
ReplyDeleteEven if every CO2 molecule that humankind is responsible for, up to and including our exhales, could be captured and sequestered somehow, and hint: it can't, not even close, the maximum reduction in atmospheric CO2 we could possibly hope for is around 12ppm.
Does humankind contribute to the CO2 in the atmosphere? Yes, about 3% of the total CO2 content or just a touch over 0.00001% of the current atmosphere.
What would happen if all human sources of CO2 were completely eliminated? No one knows but chances are really, really good that whatever does happen would be so close to absolutely nothing that nobody could tell the difference.
The math associating human caused CO2 with any rise in global average temperatures has never worked and never will.
They're shilling cleaning the air for human benefit while the aim is to use that carbon to sell to industries that use it for the benefit of their wallets and investors wallets.
ReplyDeleteThey say $4½ Billion for this project so they have rich investors they must not disappoint.
Ever since the Supreme court ruled the city of New Haven, CT could take peoples homes by eminent domain and give it to private developers it been all downhill.
I have two sewer easements running through my backyard the length of the property, both taken by eminent domain. The first is for a neighboring town before I bought the place but after I bought it they replaced the 11 inch line with a 29 inch... big mess.
The latest is for my town, 30 ft wide, 19,200 sq ft, plus 15 feet on either side “working room” so double it. They bulldozed half the 1000 pine trees the state gave me as seedlings years ago, took a half dozen mature Black Walnut trees, and half the mature fruit trees I’d planted. After splitting my property lengthwise they cut in a driveway in the middle so they can come in and spray herbicide several times a year... 150 feet from my well. Now I can’t even plant a garden there.
The GOP has a lock on the county and do what they damn well please.