Timothy Birdnow

In the comments section of a post by Dana Mathewson, Bill H. renced an experiment in Iceland to inject carbon dioxide into rock. I didn't find the exact article he mentioned but did find this article about an updated experiment in Washington State (Potsylvania, as I like to call it). From the article:

In their field study, the researchers injected the fluid carbon dioxide into hardened lava flows some 900 metres (2,952 feet) underground, near the town of Wallula in Washington State.

At that depth, minerals including calcium, iron, and magnesium make up part of the basalt formations. These minerals become unstable, and then dissolve in the acidic conditions created by the CO2.

The dissolving minerals react with the carbon dioxide to form the carbonate material ankerite, which is similar to limestone, and binds with the basalt.

Now, the Gang Green is nearly hysterical over fracking, which is to inject chemicals into the ground to break up rocks and suck the oil out of them. They warn of earthquakes and dire ecological emergencies. But they are just fine with pulling co2 out of the atmosphere, liquifying it, and injecting it into geological formations. Strange.

Also, what is missing here is any sort of way to do this without busting the bank. Factories would be happy to employ carbon capture if it was free, and even more happy if there was a way to profit from it. This is just a very expensive way to beak down rocks.

Gasoline was a waste product of the distillation of kerosene until they figured out they could use it to power automobiles. That is what you have to do to make carbon capture a priority. But then, it was never about the environment in the first place; that's why the environmentalists keep coming up with insane ideas like moving asteroids into Earth orbit and blowing them up to cool the planet.

Great. We need another ice age, or some large chunks of debris to slam into the planet.

These people are downright scary; they want to play God.

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