Dear Fred FMurrl@aol.com wrote: >...del... > > > > This is an excellent point, of course. CO2 is not > easy to capture, and is quite expensive. Our thoughts > include bubbling CO2 through sea water to produce > algae to then be used in a biomass operation. The sea > water in that case would be in artificial ponds, not > in the Gulf of Mexico or other ocean. The flue gases > have to be cleaned to avoid the poisoning effect > resulting from raw flue gases. > This is a cute way to use CO2, but I would suggest that it is not really sequestering.... it is simply "short term storage." If the biomass was carbonized, and the carbon buried, then this would be sequestering. What would you think of CO2 Sequestering being defined as follows: "CO2 sequestering is the process of removing CO2 from the biosphere." Kindest regards, Kevin Chisholm > Fred Murrell > Biomass Development > Bradenton FL USA - Bioenergy List Archives: http://www.crest.org/discussion/bioenergy/200207/ Bioenergy List Moderator: Tom Miles, tmiles@trmiles.com List-Post: <mailto:bioenergy@crest.org> List-Help: <mailto:bioenergy-help@crest.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:bioenergy-unsubscribe@crest.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:bioenergy-subscribe@crest.org> Sponsor the Bioenergy List: http://www.crest.org/discuss3.html - Other Bioenergy Events and Information: http://www.bioenergy2002.org http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1010424940_7.html Bioenergy http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975339_7.html Gasification http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975672_7.html Carbon
