23 February 2005

Scientists Looking at Ways to Trap Greenhouse Gases

I wonder whether these are the same companies that pay for research to show that global warming either isn't proven or isn't anthropogenic? "Twenty-five U.S. energy companies have committed $3 million to establish six biological carbon sequestration projects in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi through a group called PowerTree Carbon Co. The consortium aims to plant enough trees to capture more than 2 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere"

Anyway, such research seems to indicate that they do think that there's a problem ... I can't help feeling though that the more sensible way to run a power business is not to define yourself as a caol-fired power station company and so to find ways to carry on burning fossil fuel, surely it is better to define yourself a being in the power business and finding alternatives or even being in the busniness of keeping people warm or cool and well-lit and perhaps seeling services that save external power and maintain in-house generation or savings.

Scientists Looking at Ways to Trap Greenhouse Gases (washingtonpost.com):

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