"Yes I know your post was a joke but just in case someone is worried then they need not be. You can get enough electricity to work most things from your car battery."

And when the car battery runs out...? Why am I not reassured by this?

Jon
"And when the car battery runs out...? Why am I not reassured by this?
Posted by Jon J, Sunday, 13 September 2009 5:28:57 PM"

What car do you drive?.
My car recharges the battery each time I drive it.
If the electricity stations close down I will have the car fitted with
TWO batteries.
Can you understand this revolutionary idea of mine.

The odd fact about CCS is that CO2 is 3.67 times heavier than its C content. So if we need to bury the CO2 from burning carbon, we are looking at 3.67 million tonnes of storage capacity per million tonnes of C.

What coal field or oil or gas field can suddenly accommodate 3.67 times the mass of the extracted carbon? I need someone to educate me about how we can inject these colossal amounts of CO2 underneath the carbon source - or within the oil or gas field following its depletion - or even nearby. Which geological structures can be jacked up by this injection of CO2 or split apart - and at what cost.

To mine a tonne of carbon, and then capture the resulting CO2, liquify it and then bury (inject) it, must surely cost very much more than the cost of the original mining. Where are the feasibility studies which lay people can access?

Finally, if the storage of CO2 is practical but the cost of electricity doubles as a consequence, why don't we simply get on with developing alternative sources of electricity - even if the cost is 50% more than electricity generated from burning carbon. That's what I see as WIN-WIN logic.

Beef
""Finally, if the storage of CO2 is practical but the cost of electricity doubles as a consequence, why don't we simply get on with developing alternative sources of electricity - even if the cost is 50% more than electricity generated from burning carbon. That's what I see as WIN-WIN logic.""

What?.
Get ready now?.
Our glorious leaders will wait until ALL the oil and coal is gone then
go for renewable energy.