Monday, May 21, 2007

Why put CO2 into the air whenever it can be buried

Throughout the world people are trying to figure out how to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. This is because these things are capable of changing the climate. One thing these people are trying to do is capture CO2 before it enters into the atmosphere. By compressing it into a liquid and pumping it underground it may do a lot less harm. This is important because 33 billion tons of CO2 are created each year worldwide - 8.8 billion tons of it comes from the United States alone. Of course, this has created a lot of unhealthy changes in our atmosphere. A lot of people are recognizing this today but yet this problem remains unsolved because of how difficult it is. Having this knowledge is the first step that must be taken the next step is stopping the creation of any new power plants that are not carbon- sequestration- ready. There does need to be a lot more research done in this area before this can happen though. However the new laws and regulations are quite helpful in steering people in this direction. Currently there is legislation under review in Congress about this issue. Hopefully it will be the first step in aggressively tackling this issue. This time it needs to go past talking and be implemented though. Otherwise people are going to lose faith and we will get nowhere it managing this CO2 issue.

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