Comments on: Coal emissions may be history with Carbon Sponge http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: heatherGirl http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273345 heatherGirl Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:45:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273345 I can guarentee that the liberal left will oppose this. It does not involve wealth redistribution…….. so it will be boo-hoo’ed.

]]> By: GOD http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273227 GOD Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:23:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273227 I am GOD and say grow plants to remove the C from CO2. CO2 is good for plants. Climate fluctuations are more due to ther Earth’s decreasing magnectic field and the SUN.

]]> By: Ikarus http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273100 Ikarus Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273100 ‘humorous’, he said with some ill humour…

]]> By: Ikarus http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273098 Ikarus Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:32:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273098 “immediately if not soon”
The phrase is “Immediately if not sooner” Chris. Yes, it has no literal logical meaning, but it is intended to convey a sense of urgency in a humerous way.
Your inept mangling of the phrase conveys nothing but ineptitude.

]]> By: Guest http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273078 Guest Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273078 Once you pick the carbon out of the atmosphere, you put it back into the power plant boiler to make more electricity. There’s nothing wrong with burning coal and any fossil fuel, the problem is leaving the carbon floating around in the atmosphere after we burn the fuel. All this global warming stuff comes from our inability to control where carbon goes. The day we control carbon, we will have an endless supply of energy and a world thermostat.

]]> By: Sisifo http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273066 Sisifo Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273066 The problem with this capture system is that it takes literally millions of years to make coal out of plants and trees dying and getting buried and turned into these “underground slabs” but we burn said slabs in hours or days every week. We need a fast way to put coal back where we need it, be it the ground for storage or power plant boilers for making more electricity… of course we are fat…

]]> By: johnny http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273046 johnny Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:28:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273046 I know, why dont we let the CO2 go in the air where it is can make thd planet green

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273024 Anonymous Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273024 I wonder if this technology be applied to automobiles.

]]> By: chriscalvert http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-273015 chriscalvert Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-273015 I find it funny that the same opponents of coal are quick to judge any coal company that attempts to make efforts to improve emissions. It just goes to show that these opponents don’t really care about the environment – they just want to starve us from energy. The worst nightmare for coal opponents would be if the coal industry actually did come up with a zero emissions, earth-friendly solution. What would they complain about then?

]]> By: Joshua43214 http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272999 Joshua43214 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272999 To the doubters, what is wrong with a coal company making this kind of breakthrough? Industries have their own journals, and as a rule do not publish in academic journals. Coal is one quick law away from being banned in many places. Finding a solution is in their best interests. CO2 is commonly used in industry, being able to store it for later use is wonderful.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272967 anonymous Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:19:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272967 what about the other harmful coal emmisions (nitrous oxides, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic, heavy metals, etc.)?! do you people really think the smog in hong kong is made up of CO2?! i cant stand how this anthropogenic global warming nonsense has shifted the focus away from actual air-quality control.

]]> By: Abel Adamski http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272942 Abel Adamski Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272942 Warmer air + Warmer Oceans + Increased atmospheric energy whipping H2O into the atmosphere = Increased atmospheric H2O.
Plus let us not forget Methane is more potent than either and is being released in increasing amounts by melting permafrost, also by rotting plant material and as a plant byproduct.
I won’t say good luck, just adapt to the consequences of our choices

]]> By: Jason http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272939 Jason Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:19:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272939 You could release it in an industrial setting where CO2 is used as a feed stock for various reactions, for example

]]> By: Luke http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272935 Luke Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:18:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272935 God doesn’t exist you deluded fool.

]]> By: pappawtom http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272927 pappawtom Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:41:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272927 They don’t tell us that because there is nothing they can think of to stop it on the other hand CO2 is made by man so we think we are causing all the problem even though CO2 occurs naturally in the world as well.

]]> By: pappawtom http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272926 pappawtom Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:38:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272926 Correction it is oil, gas is in the east, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York. I guess the Dakota boom blew you away.

]]> By: martykayzee http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272918 martykayzee Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:50:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272918 Make fiber material out of it: Unlimited markets. Space Elevator!

]]> By: Pedant http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272916 Pedant Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:48:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272916 “Immediately if not soon”?
“As ideal as they could be”?

Come on, Mr Burns. Try harder.

]]> By: martykayzee http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272917 martykayzee Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:48:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272917 A truly delusional writer.

]]> By: out of site out of mind http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272907 out of site out of mind Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:54:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272907 Thousands of airline flights daily .uniformly crop dusting our planet with unspeakable invisible chemicals and carbon to boot…. we sure are a spoiled lot … have we got the code of silence on airline do do.???

]]> By: sunshineman99 http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272906 sunshineman99 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:51:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272906 Get your facts straight. The Dakota (not Dakoto…) There is in fact a Dakota oil boom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom.

]]> By: BLC Bubb http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272904 BLC Bubb Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272904 That strange Dakoto boom is natural ga
s, not oil.

]]> By: Stanley Kerns http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272903 Stanley Kerns Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:25:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272903 What the talking heads never tell you–water vapor is ten times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide–but, because there is so much more of it, it exerts 470 times the affect on climate as carbon dioxide–Know what? Coal emits essentially no water vapor when it burns.
Stan

]]> By: MarkEntry http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272901 MarkEntry Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272901 This nation has become so cynical, due to our habitual L*ar-in-Chief. Every positive article is instantly jumped on by Obots who so hate the USA that they live in fear that something might slip by them & go right, for a change. Notice the increasing gasoline prices that are at a fixed level amobgst stations, with an oil boom going on in the Dakotas? Corruption begets corruption. It ‘s a shame we have so many hungry lions always on the prowl to devour any sign of hope. May the good Lord enable the followers of Satan to know the Word & be saved. God, I ask in your blessed name that people wanting to be saved shout the truth from the roof tops

]]> By: davidgoldmandg http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272899 davidgoldmandg Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272899 Wont work. This metallic Carbon sponge would need to be cleaned of the CO2 when full to be re-used. And then what do we do with the CO2? Sequestration caverns will leak like a sieve – they cant even keep natural gas wells from leaking. Just a fig-leaf to keep dirty coal making money.

]]> By: SSTO http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272889 SSTO Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:13:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272889 A method for capturing carbon emissions that involves sunlight – Brilliant!
Is it a tree, grass, shrubbery? Does it convert or permanently store it?
Nope. It’s a manmade, multi-$million waste of time. If the emissions are just going straight back into the air, you’d think the tempory capture would be dirt cheap and maybe have an added benefit like Algenol Biofuels.

]]> By: Ian Dowsett http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272887 Ian Dowsett Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272887 this stuff always creeps me out a little. we already have a perfect carbon capture system, whereby truly freakish amounts of nearly pure carbon are locked away in gigantic underground slabs known as “coal”. yet like fat people sneaking snacks, we keep trying to imagine that we can reap the benefits of combining some of it with oxygen, and stick the far less stable product back in the ground without anybody noticing

]]> By: ReduceGHGs http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272886 ReduceGHGs Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:25:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272886 A coal company funded this? No wonder the results look promising, for the coal industry! We just need to stop burning it. Maybe they should spend more time researching what other uses are viable. Keeping the public thinking there’s a solution to carbon capture “just around the corner” will keep us from doing anything, ever!

]]> By: Kurt http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272883 Kurt Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:13:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272883 Bingo sk8. Plus once the C is released from the MOF where must it go? That’s right, into the atmosphere! There is still no place safe to put the released C, you’ve just momentarily delayed its release into the environment. Do they really think we are that stupid?

]]> By: sk8dog http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272874 sk8dog Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:38:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272874 2 Monash researchers receive $8.5 million from coal company in 2010, then they hype magical breakthrough to help coal company avoid a carbon crackdown. No need for carbon pricing it will all be solved with this snake oil.

]]> By: Wieger van der Wielen http://www.slashgear.com/coal-emissions-may-be-history-with-carbon-sponge-12269040/#comment-272858 Wieger van der Wielen Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=269040#comment-272858 Checmical? Scienc?

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