DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration

RickRussellTX writes "The DOE awarded $126.6 million in grants today to projects that will pump 1 million tons of CO2 into underground caverns at sites in California and Ohio. Environmental groups call carbon sequestration "a scam", claiming that it is too expensive and uncertain to be competitive with non-coal alternatives like wind and solar. I just hope nobody drops a Mentos down the wrong pipe."

Comments

Re:Better solution exists

[Anonymous Coward]

If only we could engineer a self-replicating machine that uses carbon from the air and turns it into a pretty dense and perhaps even useful solid material.

If I made such a machine I might call it 'The Real Easy Extraction' machine

Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

[silvermorph]

Hey neat, we're making our own Balrog.

Re:Bamboo

[techno-vampire]

3.Wait until becomes Petroleum.

I think you misspelled the word "Coal."

Re:So...

[somersault]

smart management Quit channeling false hope with your crazy lies and pipe dreams - you know as well as I that management are never going to be smart.

This was a plot form the Beverly Hillbillies!!!

[jzarling]

I knew this sounded familiar - its the plot of a Beverly Hillbillies episode from September 1970.

http://www.tv.com/the-beverly-hillbillies/the-pollution-solution/episode/72982/summary.html
Jed: This fellow's gonna drill a tunnel through the San Bernardino Mountains, put in a great big fan, and draw all the smog out of Los Angeles.
Drysdale: Why, that's a preposterous idea.
Jed: Yeah. We like it too. (edit)

Good episode