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CO2 Sequestration Will Not Work Long Term.

2010-03-23T03:46:00.008+08:00

OK, let's just cut right through it. Carbon sequestration as it currently stands will not work long term.

Why? In the CO2 molecule, we don't breathe this bit "C", but we do breathe this bit "O2", and we know politicians, all things being equal, will not respond quickly enough to stop putting the O2 under the ground.

Solution? Simple, we bubble the smoke stack outputs through algae and then put the algae as a slurry under the ground. We need to make sure we use a benign algae as we do not want a toxic one seeping into our ground water.

This algae can be acclimatized to smoke from the smoke stacks. And to reduce the impact on our water supplies, it can probably be acclimated to to salt water as well. We have a lot of it underground here in Australia. This would allow us to deliver the carbon as a slurry underground and keep the precious oxygen above ground.

The thing that makes this solution so viable is it doesn't change our economy. Everything can go on as normal.

The people at MIT were talking a 40% reduction in GHG emissions, conceivably adding a light in the tubes could increase sequestration by 60 to 80% for now, with better results as the technology evolves. I think the slurry is a better use of the resulting algae production, though there is still merit in t's production as a biofuel.

There is also the possibility of using algae in paper production as well, reducing the need for wood chipping. Something I'd be quite happy about.

For an excellent book on biofuel production, Microalgae for Biofuel Production and CO2 Sequestration.

Reaching Carbon Balance Through Reduction

2009-03-04T19:27:00.005+09:00

One of the key things to realise about reducing carbon emissions is we need to be on the negative side of the emissions equation.

I.E. For balance we need to reach a

1-1=0.

To reduce the current glut of carbon in our atmosphere we need to reduce it below balance to say, 1-5=-5.

For example, by sequestering 5 times our normal carbon output we can reduce our carbon footprint to balance in about 15 years.

Are governments around the world going to do this?

On their current performance I would say "No!"

I would say we are going to have to be the ones who do it ourselves or convince them they are actually going to have to stop talking and get it done..

Applying The 80/20 Rule To World Hunger

2008-12-10T15:51:00.000+09:00

I did a reverse search on many of the topics involved in global warming and dealing with world hunger and found the number of searches for these items was incredibly low, when compared to "news" items.

I feel our news media has a solemn duty to properly keep these things in the public eye, so that people begin to understand the problem fully enough to change their behavours.

For example, many of the things we can do about global warming are, as simple as, turning out a light or offsetting our car usage; and if we add enough of them up, we can easily bring the world carbon emissions below that much talked about and little done 20% mark.

For some useful tools,

Build Your Own Solar Panels

Convert Your Car To Electric

Using Water As A Fuel

Applying The 80/20 Rule To Global Warming

2008-10-11T17:28:00.004+08:00

One of the most important things to do is decide what are going to be the quickest methodologys to reduce global warming now, not in three years now!

Each country will be different, each country will have different resources we can apply to this increasing environmental degradation.

We can do it. We only think we don't handle change well. However, when the earth is at breaking point, we must adapt quickly or perish.

Act Now

Do We Need More Action On Climate Change Or More Talking And Another Report

2008-07-16T18:55:00.005+08:00

Labor leader Kevin Rudd has called for an Australian version of the Stern Report to calculate the economic cost of climate change, following the release of the latest UN warning on climate change.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released in Brussels last night, giving the most alarming forecast yet about the consequences of climate change for the world.

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