Back in March, we shared news from Australia that scientists had created a carbon sequestration tool that converted airborne CO2 into coal at room temperature. Talk about renewable energy. The left, naturally, ignored it. But now MIT has announced another method.
Related: Discovery: Scientists Can Turn CO2 From the Atmosphere into Coal at Room Temperature
Most methods of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of gas require higher concentrations, such as those found in the flue emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants. A few variations have been developed that can work with the low concentrations found in air, but the new method is significantly less energy-intensive and expensive, the researchers say.
The technique, based on passing air through a stack of charged electrochemical plates, is described in a new paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, by MIT postdoc Sahag Voskian, who developed the work during his PhD, and T. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Call off the apocalypse! And not just the climate variety.
Instead of wasting billions propping-up so-called green infrastructure, or mandating energy portfolios that create a massive shadow tax on homeowners and job creators, just stop. Leave all that money in the free market and encourage investment in these technologies. Private money will optimize them and then utilize them to address public concerns about CO2 and climate.
The Federal government can then stop over-regulating everyone’s lives from Washington DC and return all of that decision-making to the states and the people where it belongs.
Right?
Compared to other existing carbon capture technologies, this system is quite energy efficient, using about one gigajoule of energy per ton of carbon dioxide captured, consistently. Other existing methods have energy consumption which vary between 1 to 10 gigajoules per ton, depending on the inlet carbon dioxide concentration, Voskian says.
The researchers have set up a company called Verdox to commercialize the process, and hope to develop a pilot-scale plant within the next few years, he says. And the system is very easy to scale up, he says: “If you want more capacity, you just need to make more electrodes.”
Wrong.
If you ever wanted proof that this scam never had anything to do with CO2 or the climate or global warming, this will be it. Ask your Democrat (party of science) members of Congress to consider these scientific discoveries.
An opportunity to develop affordable low-energy scalable sequestration technology. Tools whose cost could be taken as a tax write-off by energy companies or emitters that deploy them.
We could scrap RGGI, and the proposed TCI creeping gas tax that is under consideration in New Hampshire and other Northeastern States.
The reduction in unnecessary taxes would leave billions in the US economy annually for more productive purposes. In the hands of those who earned it, to spend or invest in local businesses and to create jobs and lift wages without the need for government interventions. (Not that we need them now.)
It would keep energy prices low and affordable for the less fortunate and even reduce cost-burdens on taxpayers paying to run local and state government.
Shouldn’t Democrats be all for that?
They won’t. This was never about the climate or sea-level, or any of that. It was a means to a socialist redistributive end. So, the odds that any left-wing Democrat will embrace or support any new affordable scalable carbon-sequestration technology are little to none.
I bet they treat it like Nuclear and poison the well, block development, or find some other means to stall, bury, or kill it.
