Re: Global Warming - I love that it's finally getting the attent

I say let the climate do whatever it is going to do. The simple and
*technical* truth is that there is very little we can do to alter it.

"The avalanche has started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote." -- Kosh Naranek

Huh. Well, a starting attitude like that makes it very difficult to accomplish anything

Imagine if you will, a sequestering coal-fired power plant such as was planned for Futuregen... where the CO2 and other pollutants are sequesterd deep in the ground.

Now take a biomass plant like Miscanthus (www.miscanthus.uiuc.edu) which is perennial in growth and requires nearly zero input (care required only in the 1st three years), can be planted in areas food crops can't, provides a protective environment for animals (it is best harvested in winter) and regrows upto 30 years... and it can be co-fired in percentages upto 50% in coal plants...

And then you combine the two, and you have atomspheric scrubbing of CO2 taking place.  Very ala Star Trek, and also very possible.

There is very much we can do about it, it just requires novel thinking and combining technologies -- who would've thunk that a coal powerplant could be a good thing?

M@

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