Friday, February 15, 2008

"anyone got any idea of the energy cost of carbon sequestration?"

From this post:
By the way, anyone got any idea of the energy cost of carbon sequestration? Capturing, compressing, transporting and injecting this stuff takes energy, so how much energy? Would it require an extra 10%, 20%, perhaps 50% fuel resource to get the same output if you are wasting so much energy putting carbon back underground? Pretty stupid to waste say an extra 30% of your coal fueling the reburial of carbon you have expended energy mining in the first place, no?

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