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US is expanding CO2 pipelines. One poisoned town wants you to know its story
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#12Ummm. Dumb question here.
Why do we have CO2 pipelines?
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to capture CO2 from the atmosphere at the location where the CO2 was needed?
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#14Ummm. Dumb question here. Why do we have CO2 pipelines? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to capture CO2 from the atmosphere at the location where the CO2 was needed?
Good point.
The answer is: Ridiculously high Government subsidies.
In other words, this is simply a stealth tax on the public where the only winners are corporations which benefit via very generous tax credits.
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I understand the sentiment, but my personal opinion is that the human impact from Chernobyl specifically is vastly under counted. We're talking about a regime (the USSR) that didn't even admit there was an issue for a week while the plant was in an active meltdown. You really can't trust the official numbers related to the disaster. I speak from personal experience. My partner is from Belarus. Their mother was nearby…
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If we're gonna compare... CO2 dissipates but nuclear accidents cost $100B+ to cleanup and decades - to Sally Average voters, Fukushima was the third strike (after 3 mile island and fukushima): if the Japanese can't safely operate nuclear, then no way is Sally gonna trust Homer Simpson. And even if she can believe, good luck explaining to her friends and family, let alone potential renters and buyers of her largest financial asset (the house).
Sally Average won't allow nuclear in her backyard, for all backyards in the US.
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#17Ummm. Dumb question here. Why do we have CO2 pipelines? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to capture CO2 from the atmosphere at the location where the CO2 was needed?
It's cheaper to capture it where it is concentrated, at the source (eg. power plants).
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#18Ummm. Dumb question here. Why do we have CO2 pipelines? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to capture CO2 from the atmosphere at the location where the CO2 was needed?
There's nothing remotely economical about capturing CO2 in the first place. But if you're dead set on doing it, it costs the least to do it where the CO2 concentration is the highest (where it's produced.)
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#19I wonder how practical it would be to add something smelly and distinctive to CO2 the way we do with natural gas? Otherwise a CO2 leak is really mysterious. It could be in quite low concentrations, to the point where you would only smell it if the air was getting to dangerous levels. This wouldn't help with a release from a natural source, but if we are ramping up carbon capture efforts maybe we'll see more industria…
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If we're gonna compare... CO2 dissipates but nuclear accidents cost $100B+ to cleanup and decades - to Sally Average voters, Fukushima was the third strike (after 3 mile island and fukushima): if the Japanese can't safely operate nuclear, then no way is Sally gonna trust Homer Simpson. And even if she can believe, good luck explaining to her friends and family, let alone potential renters and buyers of her largest fi…
> CO2 dissipates
CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere where it acts as a greenhouse gas. How much is this going to cost us in the long run?