Showing posts with label National Academies of Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Academies of Science. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2007

Kate Blames Suzuki For Her Lousy Search Skills

...or that is what I assume to be the lesson of this post, which links to an interesting article in Solid Waste Magazine re. a project in Saskatchewan where they are pumping liquefied carbon back into a barren oil field for storage, and then links to the results you get when you run "CO2 Sequestration" through the search engine at David Suzuki's website, which are Zero.

Apparently, we are supposed to be appalled at Suzuki's lack of interest in the topic. But of course if you run a less technical phrase like "carbon sequestration" through the same engine, you get plenty of hits.

Although you don't get material on this particular type of project at Suzuki's site, and in fact I suspect that Suzuki would look upon schemes which hide the results of emissions as expensive gimmicks that merely serve to delay action on actually cutting emissions. Indeed, there exist severe mid to long-term problems associated with carbon burial.

However, I would point out this recent statement from the National Academies, which represents scientists from 13 countries, including Canada, on tackling AGW:

... it will be necessary to develop and deploy new sources and systems for energy supply, including clean use of coal, carbon capture and storage,unconventional fossil fuel resources, advanced nuclear
systems, advanced renewable energy systems (including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal energy), smart grids and energy storage technologies.


In other words, the NAs are suggesting we will have to throw pretty much everything, including clean coal, carbon storage, and nuclear power, at the wall to get a handle on the issue, and hope that something sticks.