Comments on: Carbon Recycling Cheat Sheet

By: Haley Paul

Haley Paul — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:44:02 +0000

More on the expense and feasibility of carbon capture/clean coal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/07/20/clean-coal-competitive-someday-just-not-today/

By: SJones

SJones — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:03:35 +0000

I like the outline this article provides about two possible options in the global climate change problem. I haven’t heard much about carbon recycling but I have heard the the plausiblity of carbon sequestration is still a ways off. Hopefully the cap and trade bill will help to curb some of a carbon emissions. It is unfortunate that the bill is giving 85% of the permits for free, though. If they had been auctioned off (as 15% of them will) then the cost of these permits would of been passed to the consumer, which would have provided an incentive to reduce energy use. A carbon tax might have been a better way to go- much more straightforward and effective.

By: james

james — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:39:26 +0000

Hi I Liked the article and what Carbon Science is doing in this regard but it is not clear from CS that they can really build this tech to the industrial scale and be successful. Have CS implemented a prototype anywhere in industrial application. Are there no voluntary industries to support the research from CS. If you have more information please update me , Haley.
Nice article.

By: CSO

CSO — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:29:39 +0000

These are two new and important technologies, neither one of which has been perfected. I personally support CO2 recycling as opposed to sequestration, because sequestration is not getting rid of CO2, it’s just burying it under ground, which could be potentially hazardous in the future.

Carbon recycling is a way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and use it for something that would be created and used anyway, such as jet fuel (recycling). So, as long as we are able to recycle CO2 without creating more CO2 than we are removing from the atmosphere, then Carbon Sciences is a winner and I support it. Good article Haley!

By: Ronald Swager

Ronald Swager — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:18 +0000

Ms. Paul and Ms. Tatro obviously has never learned their thermodynamics. Converting CO2 back to a fuel would consume more energy than you could possible get back from the fuel, and, unless all that energy came from carbon-neutral sources, would produce even more CO2.