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?"

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Re:No

[jlehtira]

A tax for not living in the stone ages sounds like a bad thing to a lot of people.

How terribly shortsighted of the lot. It is a tax for polluting our only, shared, planet. Throwing away things you don't need is a practice from stone age and it's getting increasingly dangerous now that we possess things that are far more poisonous than animal bones. Well, we can't really not throw away carbon dioxide now, but that's only because we're still living a stone age when it comes to recycling.

You know, I think it's sensible to make people pay for the damage they do to other people's property. That's law everywhere. Now, nobody, or all of us, really own this planet, so the payment is not a simple transaction. I think the model of polluters-pay-non-polluters fulfills this moral principle in a sound way. Sure, the more developped nations pollute more now, but that doesn't change anything. That's a lame excuse. Development does not necessarily involve pollution and even if it would it wouldn't change the moral responsibility involved.