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| Zero CO2 Coal Plant to Start Up in Germany - Greens Unhappy Anyway |
| 2008-09-09 |
| BERLIN (AFP) -- One of Europe's biggest power companies inaugurates on Tuesday a pilot project...potential breakthrough in the fight against climate change. But green campaigners have denounced the project as a cosmetic operation that does not really address the problem of global warming. [claim by the Greens is that the same company is building regular coal plants elsewhere but maybe they are ticked that people are allowed to have electricity in the first place] At the site of the massive "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station in the old East Germany... captures the greenhouse gases produced when fossil fuels are combusted.... The captured gases are then sharply compressed until they become liquid and are injected deep underground... in a gas field in northern Germany [cost per KWH isn't given possibly because its really, really high]. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #6 And again the brain damaged "greens" miss the point. CO2 is a nutrient, not a pollutant! Dump it into the middle of the ocean (kelp/plankton) or the Amazon rainforest so it can be recycled. |
| Posted by: DLR 2008-09-09 12:15 |
| #5 Liquefying and buring CO2 seems to me as the ideal way to have a giant and deadly earth fart. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-09-09 11:15 |
| #4 That's the irony of the situation! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-09-09 10:02 |
| #3 BP, .....but none of those categories is incompatible with any of the others with the possible exception of real greens. My own view is that such people would never self-identify as a "green". |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-09-09 09:45 |
| #2 There are strains of "green". There are real greens who look to efficiency and stopping real pollution from affecting other peoples property. There are melons who are really marxists who use green issues to push the failed policies of coerced collectivism. Then there are post religious gaia worshipers. Lastly there is the neo-luddites. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-09-09 09:29 |
| #1 Greens Unhappy Anyway Well, duh. Greens are never happy. |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-09-09 09:07 |