Re: Convent fuel for remote locations - C3

[bob allen <bob@ozarker.org>]

Harry W. Parker wrote:


>Hello Raili and all,
>
>If necessary CO2 emissions are best sequestered at very large coal-fired
>power plant where 20,000 tons per day or more of CO2 must be managed.  There
>is more CO2 to sequester than coal being burned.   The economies of scale
>are important.   This CO2 sequestration is not cheap. It increases the
>production price of electricity from about 5 to 7 cents/Kw-hr.
>
thus making renewabe fuels all the more attractive

>   CO2
>sequestration is one of my major research activities. 
>

so tell me, how do you plan to sequester the co2?   Inject into the 
oceans?  Inject it into "spent" gas wells?  Chemical conversion?  I have 
yet to hear anything approaching a doable scheme. When Lake Nyos (sp?) 
"burped", the release of co2 killed everything for miles around.  


> Nuclear power may
>look attractive.
>

energetically yes, politically no.

>
>The safety of C3 usage has been demonstrated for many years, no problem,
>and the C3 delivery trucks might just as well use propane for fuel.
>
>For convenience C3 beats solid fuels for sure, besides there are no fumes,
>no smoke and  no ashes, plus convenient on/off usage.
>

we must look beyond oil (and coal)

-- 
Bob Allen
Professor of Chemistry
Arkansas Tech University
http://ozarker.org/bob/bob.html



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