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How the American South is paying the price for Europe's 'green' energy
- PaulHoule 5y agoIn principle biomass energy schemes can be carbon negative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_and_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_... If you have pure carbon dioxide compressing it to 1500 psi and injecting into old oil wells or saline aquifers is straightforward and the American South has comparative advantage doing it because industry there is world beating at pumping gas out. The "pure" part is important because even a percent of Nitrogen or Water will cause phase separation and uncontrolled behavior while pumping. It's easy to get a pure waste carbon dioxide stream out of an ethanol plant (the yeast make it) but you need an acid gas stripper with an expensive stock of Aniline to get the CO2 out of the waste gas from a thermal power plant or a biomass-to-fluid system. It helps if you can do combustion in a nitrogen-free environment (with an oxygen plant like a steel mill, recirculating waste gas to keep the temps down or with chemical looping combustion)
- donezo 5y agoWorth it. The south should be focused on gaining real industry and financial independence. They will continue to be mocked unless they show they are formidable.
- JohnClark1337 5y agoEurope commits environmental racism in the American south. They should be ashamed of themselves.