http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/05/28/doe-creates-national-carbon-capture-center/ Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 22:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/05/28/doe-creates-national-carbon-capture-center/comment-page-1/#comment-129106 peter bowler Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:15:41 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=15644#comment-129106 My comments do not reflect views or opinions of the company that employs me. The entire idea of carbon capture and sequestration strikes me as a little "off", lacking in common sense. What happens if a large carbon repository suffers an natural disaster and releases its contents abruptly? Please don't tel lme this is impossible because in nature nothing is impossible or even unlikely. What consequences does that bring to the environment and to the inhabitants of its vicinity? These questions may smack of medieval thinking to your readers, but they are personal and the public will be asking them even if belatedly. We have a natural system of carbon dioxide balance with plants and this giant scale idea just seems like forgetting the way nature works or simply throwing up our hands to admit this got out of hand. Even with that admission, does sequestration make sense? If it does, someone please explain to me how. Thank you. My comments do not reflect views or opinions of the company that employs me. The entire idea of carbon capture and sequestration strikes me as a little “off”, lacking in common sense. What happens if a large carbon repository suffers an natural disaster and releases its contents abruptly? Please don’t tel lme this is impossible because in nature nothing is impossible or even unlikely. What consequences does that bring to the environment and to the inhabitants of its vicinity? These questions may smack of medieval thinking to your readers, but they are personal and the public will be asking them even if belatedly. We have a natural system of carbon dioxide balance with plants and this giant scale idea just seems like forgetting the way nature works or simply throwing up our hands to admit this got out of hand. Even with that admission, does sequestration make sense? If it does, someone please explain to me how. Thank you.

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