"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
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KLC Lewis wrote:
"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
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If you know of another disposal method for the 3 billion tons Carbon
Dioxide that is proposed to be captured from of coal fired energy
plants please post to the group so we all will know. Don't just say I
don't know what I am talking about.

There is one other way to handle it but that will create 7 billion
tons/year of metal salts that will have to be treated as toxic waste for
eternity. This could be more depending on the metal they used to react
with the carbon dioxide.

I have a degree in Chemistry and worked in the chemical industry for
many years so know my chemistry. I know federal disposal regulations
for chemical disposal. Can you tell me the educational basis for your
comments?

The current method of sequestering co2 is to pump it into underground
chambers left empty from oil deposits. A more long-term solution would be
to create calcium carbonate by pumping it through lime slurry, or use it
to grow simple plants (algaes) and create more oxygen, trapping the
carbon in the plants' cellulose. The algaes can then feed people and
animals, and be used as fertilizer for other food crops.

You can use 8 billion tons per year is this way?

What are you going to do with the lime slurry?

The lime sets when exposed to CO2, becoming an inert rock. You can use it
for any number of things (see link below), or nothing at all -- just dump it
into empty rock quarries if you like. As for how much can be sequestered
this way, I don't know and I don't much care. The numbers sound enormous
only because we are so tiny when compared with the Earth itself. And when
you get right down to it, I think the whole issue is a crock. The Earth is
quite resilient, and more than capable of dealing with our miniscule CO2
output. But turning "pollution" into something useful makes more sense than
not, IMO.

http://www.hemtecusa.com/Lime_Facts.html
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