If my grand kids said to me "if only you could have slowed down global warming when you had the chance, we would have had long enough to use our new fangled technology and ideas to put things right: but you didn't do we can't" I'd be kicking myself.
Well we have the technology to scrub Co2 from the air a form of plastic when dry collects co2 when wet it releases it. The technology still on paper is how to store the gas when we get it cause there would be vast amounts of it. Some ideas are to store it underground but imagine if the gas brakes free it would suffocate everything in the vicinity of where it breached the surface.
Well as i said before a form of plastics abosorbes loads of Co2 when dry and releases it when its wet a very cheap way of scrubbing execs co2 from our atmosphere. The only problem now is storage where to put all that freeking gas but if we slow down the effects of global warming enough we might find a solution i we dont we might get screwed big time.
Any new fangled technology to trap the methane gas being released from the Artic permafrost? I understand it has 20 to 30 times the "kick" of carbon dioxide.
Nope thats why we cant let that gas escape, the way to do that is to stop or lower co2 production so the temperatures dont rise any higher.
I think that gas is the point of no return when it stats to escape on a massive scale we are only heading on one direction.
And as to storing CO2 gas? I'm sure the standard response will be similar to storing atomic waste. "Great idea. Just not in my state."
Well no you would probably have to store it where you pumped the oil out because of the massive volume the gas would take. The problem being if it gets out everything in the vicinity gets suffocated.
If you read the next sentence you will see that i have pointed out that problem.
But given that technology is progressing ever faster we might find another solution but if we dont slow down global warming we might go past the point of no return when such options are available.
Like launching bottles of compressed Co2 in to space via a "HARP gun"or something similar.
Yea that harp gun in to space was the first thing that poped in to my head im just saying that there are many possibilities coming our way many new technologies that could deal with the problem but if we let global warming go too fare they wont matter.
Natural gas is stored and has the potential of being used, so there is a profit incentive. But what about CO2? If you're just trying to take it out of circulation, then I see a CO2 tax to pay for it's storage. Sound reasonable?
You could probably make it a hidden and fair tax say every gallon of fuel has a bit of tax on it that goes to co2 storage, every watt of energy from a coal plant also .... So as much co2 as you contribute you also pay to store away for future generations to deal with
its like saying i gave 100$ to charity today im a good man, while just last night i stole 10 000 $ from a granny the good deed i did dosent compare with the bad one. And it sounds less of a good thing if i say i gave 1% of the money i stole from a granny to charity.
In the lists case iceland gave 30% of the money it stole from the granny (power it produced in a nice green way) to charity while the US the one on top of your list only gave 0.3%