Re: [DIYbio] Why isn't there more talk on carbon sequestration?

On 04/03/2014 02:41 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
>> Photosynthesis, whether biological or
>> >synthetic, is NOT sequestration. It is a recycling process whether
>> >naturally involved in the ecological carbon cycle, or synthetic
>> >mimicry/participation. Sequestration is STORAGE.
> You have stopped being scientific. We waste thermodynamic energy every
> time we recharge our cell phones or laptops, the molecule that
> participates doesn't matter, carbon isn't any different.

I think maybe he was not talking science or whole world accounting a la Bucky, just politics
of "credits", which Tesla can earn by producing cars, but you probably
would have a hard time documenting, validating and taking to the bank.

On 04/03/2014 02:57 PM, Simon Quellen Field wrote:> What is your argument for how storing it in the air is thermodynamically
positive, but storing it in compressed form in natural
> gas wells is not? I am not saying you are wrong, I'm just asking you to show your work.
>

I've heard about this. Does expending energy and money to pump CO2 into holes in the ground
make some kind of economic sense?

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