I used to have an office just opposite of the Henry Weinhard's brewery. They bought CO2 by the tankful. Dry ice for refrigeration? Sparkling beverages? Fire extinguishers? Energy? Spooky fog effects?
So you make CO2, extracting it out of the atmosphere with your fancy new machine and then sell it to people who put it back. Makes sense. I wonder if this way of making CO2 is cheaper than the fractionation process they use to extract Nitrogen, CO2 and oxygen and other gasses from the atmosphere?
There has been some progress at sequestering carbon by using it in fracking wastewater injection but there are secrets and then there are proprietary fracking fluid ingredient secrets. Last I heard, nth hand, it was promising but not profitable.
The last I read on carbon sequestration, it was only viable economically if they were forcing the CO2 underground to pump up oil or gas and it wasn't clear that the CO2 was staying down there anyway.
I did read it, but ... who wants to buy CO2? Burying it doesn't really work. What can you make CO2 into?
I used to have an office just opposite of the Henry Weinhard's brewery. They bought CO2 by the tankful. Dry ice for refrigeration? Sparkling beverages? Fire extinguishers? Energy? Spooky fog effects?
So you make CO2, extracting it out of the atmosphere with your fancy new machine and then sell it to people who put it back. Makes sense. I wonder if this way of making CO2 is cheaper than the fractionation process they use to extract Nitrogen, CO2 and oxygen and other gasses from the atmosphere?
There has been some progress at sequestering carbon by using it in fracking wastewater injection but there are secrets and then there are proprietary fracking fluid ingredient secrets. Last I heard, nth hand, it was promising but not profitable.
The last I read on carbon sequestration, it was only viable economically if they were forcing the CO2 underground to pump up oil or gas and it wasn't clear that the CO2 was staying down there anyway.
Okay, how about you warehouse the carbon and run a long con where you sell it as carbon offsets in a cap-and-trade market about a thousand times?
Soros and Goldman Sachs would be happy to do just that all in the name of saving the planet.