Todd Dunning
This is the same Steven Chu that decided we should paint all of our roofs white and no longer allow black cars.
This is why the Department of Energy needs to be simply removed from the Federal budget. More pure useless pork at the cost of legitimate science research with real issues (like cancer) that deserve your dollars.
$141 million in stimulus funding. Just great. At least they\'re corect that it\'s creating \'green jobs\' for handpicked cronies. But it\'s no longer 2006, and fortunately more people are aware that this is real money, taken not only from our pockets but the Chinese govt\'s - plus compounding interest.
Derek Howe
I couldn\'t agree with you more Todd Dunning.
Slowburn
Maybe we\'ll be able to get the power back out of the ground using little turbines on the well heads when we look back at AGW the same way we look at Madoff, and Piltdown man.
Mark Petereit
Lets see here, we have an Illinois (wink, wink) university and a multi-billion dollar corporation getting millions (billions?) of tax dollars to turn food into an inefficient, corrosive fuel, now building an underground storage facility they can use to hide their highly toxic waste, all under the guise of sequestering carbon to \"save the planet\" from global warming that has now been PROVEN not to be caused by carbon in the atmosphere.
I think this article may have just set a new record for journalistic, legislative, scientific and economic FAIL.
Facebook User
as much as i love the DOE, even steven chu admitted most of his job is preoccupied with the DOE\'s primary mission of NUCLEAR FUEL AND WEAPONS SECURITY.
this is probably the best explanation as to why the DOE\'s efforts to engage in alternative energy research have been such objective failures. unlike Darpa, the DOE has not had any good investments. sadly, beauracratic disentanglement seems impossible, and thus we must be resigned to seeing tax dollars wasted on nonsense like carbon sequestration, which ranks among other projects such as sulphurizing the air, salting the ocean with iron, and a few other insane projects that have had government subsidies on behalf of global warming mitigation projects.
it is truly sad to see the government so bloated with money and so void of common sense that no one could veto projects like this. carbon sequestration ranks amongst other projects such as salting the ocean with iron, researching the possibility of sulphurizing and dusting the atmosphere to reflect back radiation out of the atmosphere.
how can you pollute the environment in the name of saving the environment? this is the kind if insane thinking you\'d expect out of a remorseless coal corporation, but instead you get global warming alarmists doing this stuff. as a traditional environmentalist, i find this astounding, and along with the nonstop calls for cap and trade , for the benefit of wall street and nothing else, as well as calls for carbon taxes, which would NOT stop pollution by any stretch of the imagination and are only designed to bankrupt corporation by putting their money in governments\' purse.
if you want to stop coal mining , i won\'t accept taxing it. you must simply ban it in some places and or shut down plants.
no more policy by taxing corporation which just pass the cost on too consumers.
real policy requires command regulation, not complex regulatory and tax schemes.
David Sloan
Now Al Gore can start trading in green house credits . . . the big phony!
mboyd
Todd Dunning: what\'s wrong with white roofs? they may not look as good as black roofs, but they should reflect an awful lot of heat that would otherwise be added to your cooling bill.
James Dugan
What? No pro-AGW voices? I\'m SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you! As much grief as I get over posting anti-AGW articles on my facebook and googleplus pages, I expected far more pro-AGW voices here.
I guess people are figuring THAT one out....
Green Energy? no such a thing...it ALL has a \'problem\' if you\'re concerned about that.
CO2? It\'s not the problem....
...technically - slightly interesting. Politically and Financially? This is a boondoggle....
KellyRW
Anything ever considered waste turns out to be a resource that is simply at the wrong place or time. I hope this means of storing carbon allows it to be retrieved for use when desired.
999 HOT
So...
what\'s needed next is to process the carbon dioxide into useful carbon fibre, to manufacture products directly from that using an upgraded 3D printing process.
Finding a use for the oxygen would probably be the easier part.
Mass production out of thin air?