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TTiger · 10-04-2008, 11:42 PM

this is a quebec companies with a bright future!

CO2 Solution has developed a proprietary bio-technological platform for the efficient capture of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas (GHG), from power plants and other large stationary sources of emissions. We are commercializing our technology for coal fired power generation, the oil sands and other CO2-intensive industries where a low-cost capture solution is key to meeting climate change legislation in a cost effective manner.

stevo · 10-04-2008, 11:45 PM

http://www.co2solution.com/en/technology-overview.php

After Shock Media · 10-04-2008, 11:47 PM

Oddly why is it that some Dutch (I think if I recall) natural gas companies are already dealing with what would be their massive CO2 emissions by pumping it back into the ground as they extract it from the natural gas? Pretty sure they would not be doing this if it was not already a profitable way to deal with emission standards.

yys · 10-05-2008, 06:43 AM

I thought this was going to be about the guy in Calgary and his carbon scrubber. They featured it in an episode of Discovery channel project earth. They have it up on their site.

If you were to run this next to a coal plant it would capture 10 times more CO2 then is produced to run it.

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Alberta researchers claim their machine removes CO2 from air
Kelly Cryderman , Canwest News Service
Published: Monday, September 29, 2008

CALGARY - A team of University of Calgary researchers say they have built a simple machine that can capture carbon dioxide right out of the air, and that could operate anywhere on the planet.

The researchers, led by renown climate-change scientist David Keith, acknowledge they are one of several groups of North American scientists vying to create a version of the technology that's efficient enough to become commercially viable.

But this past summer, Keith's team was able to measure how much CO2 they took out of the ambient air during an outdoor test at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.

Although still in an early stage of development, Keith believes the technology could be a key part in an array of strategies as the environmental and financial costs of emitting carbon soar, especially for companies in resource-rich Alberta, a province facing international pressure to clean up its oilsands.

"This may sound self-serving, but I think it's true: Alberta needs to really work hard at trying to get Alberta companies competitive at novel ways to manage energy in a CO2-constrained world," Keith said Monday.

"It means everything from solar and wind, to things like this, to just doing the oilsands better."

Keith and his researchers believe their four years of work is particularly significant because "air capture" technology is the only way to trap CO2 emissions from transportation sources such as vehicles and aircraft, which are significant greenhouse-gas producers.

Keith's technology works through a machine that resembles a large telescope.

Ambient air is captured and the CO2 is extracted using sodium hydroxide, which absorbs the CO2. The CO2 is extracted from the hydroxide solution.

Keith's machine is relatively energy efficient, and he says the captured CO2 could be stored, used for enhanced recovery of oil or gas or, possibly, used as an ingredient for fuel.
Since CO2 travels, a plant using air-capture technology could be built anywhere in the world, wherever it's cheapest to operate. An oilsands operator in Alberta could pay for the CO2 removal in a locale as distant as China, said Keith, a director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy.

Other researchers at Columbia University in New York City and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California are also working on the air-capture of CO2, but Keith believes his simple and reliable version could open the door to a commercial-scale plant.

"Who will actually take it forward is now a horse race," Keith said.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said Monday its position has always been that technology advances are key to achieving major CO2 emission reductions.

"It will be a real coup for Alberta if the U of C can succeed," said Rick Hyndman, the association's senior policy adviser for climate change and air issues.

"The concept of capture of CO2 from the atmosphere has been talked about for some time, but having a live experiment that has the potential to be commercial is truly encouraging," he said.

"This is not going to be cheap, but it sounds as if it could be comparable to the cost of other actions being considered."

Marlo Raynolds, executive director of the Pembina Institute - an environmental think-tank - said it's important that Canada continue to develop technologies to impact greenhouse gases, because there's no "silver bullet."

Given the scale of global warming, "It's going to require a real portfolio of solutions.

"This technology isn't going to make energy any cheaper," Raynolds said. "This technology is not going to make our local air quality any cleaner. I think what's critical is that we're looking at all the benefits of taking action on reducing greenhouse-gas pollution."

Keith and his team's research is featured in an episode of Discovery Channel's new Project Earth series that will air in Canada in January.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/na...b-ad52be9954ec

yys · 10-05-2008, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Oddly why is it that some Dutch (I think if I recall) natural gas companies are already dealing with what would be their massive CO2 emissions by pumping it back into the ground as they extract it from the natural gas? Pretty sure they would not be doing this if it was not already a profitable way to deal with emission standards.

An added benefit is that it increases the life of the oil/gas wells. In the episode of project earth with the carbon scrubber they visit an offshore Statoil platform that pumps the CO2 back into their well.

RedShoe · 10-05-2008, 06:52 AM

You can thank Al Gore for your paranoia and guilt, morons. In case you don't watch. Humans put out about 3% of all carbon dioxide on the planet. The #1 cause of CO2... nature itself. Oh and without CO2, the planet would cool down and we'd all die.

~Enjoy

part 1

part 2

part 3

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