Cheap Carbon Filter Removes 90% of CO₂ From Smokestack Emissions

This sounds like a big success. If this is as good as the research shows, we may be done listening to these global warming knuckleheads preach about how we are all going to die. Yeah, I was joking. They’ll never shut up, but just find another crisis to warn us about.

Anyway:

Researchers in Wyoming report development of a low-cost carbon filter that can remove 90 percent of carbon dioxide gas from the smokestacks of electric power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels.

Maciej Radosz and colleagues at Wyoming’s Soft Materials Laboratory cite the pressing need for simple, inexpensive new technologies to remove carbon dioxide from smokestack gases. Coal-burning electric power plants are major sources of the greenhouse gas, and control measures may be required in the future.

The free market to the rescue, once again. And if removing the CO2 from the air wasn’t enough, it has a bonus attached to it. Via Free Republic:

The short answer to “where does the CO2 go” — you have to PUT it somewhere (think geological formation), but if you do it right, it’s a twofer! You can use it for enhanced oil and gas recovery techniques. From the paper:

“Although a typical destination of the captured CO2 is commonly envisioned to be some form of passive geologic storage or other storage type, this work is also motivated by a vision of utilizing the captured CO2 to displace valuable oil and coal-bed methane stranded in mature reservoirs, as illustrated in Figure 1, before storing it permanently in spent reservoirs. Such a CO2-driven displacement is referred to as enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and enhanced coal-bed methane recovery (ECBMR).”

So not only does it remove 90% of carbon dioxide emissions from smokestacks, but it can be used to get more oil. Very nice.

If you think this will be enough for the Church of Global Warming, think again. Another Freeper adds:

You’d see the AGW people shouting with delight,

IF

reducing CO2 were actually their goal.

Reducing our lifestyle is the actual goal, so don’t expect them to be too excited about a smokestack scrubber that allows the power plant output to remain the same or greater with reduced CO2.

Watch them and remember.

Exactly. The global warming crisis isn’t about us warming the global, but creating “a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world.” This will either not be enough, or another threat will present itself.