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Low Emission Electricity Plants
BishopBerkeley writes "Nature is reporting (I have a univ. IP, so hopefully the link works for everyone) that plans are underway to build a power plant in Scotland that dramatically reduces carbon emission in fossil fuel burning power plants. The process will use steam to crack methane into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen is then burned, and the carbon dioxide is pumped into deposits under the North Sea. If it works, will resistance to the Kyoto Treaty finally go away?"
It is a tax for polluting our only, shared, planet.
No, it's a tax for emitting carbon dioxide. That's right, a tax on breathing!
You know, I think it's sensible to make people pay for the damage they do to other people's property.
Me too.
I think the model of polluters-pay-non-polluters fulfills this moral principle in a sound way.
The Kyoto Protocol exempts the second biggest producer of carbon dioxide from making any payments at all, so even if you equate carbon dioxide with pollution Kyoto does not accomplish that goal you suggest.
Sure, the more developped nations pollute more now, but that doesn't change anything. That's a lame excuse.
No, calling carbon dioxide pollution is a lame excuse for taxing progress.