Global Warming & Climate Change Lies #2 plus Peak Oil

[valuesystem]

Yesterday, on my drive to a meeting, I saw an incredible sight: gasoline prices of $3.25 per gallon! On was so shocked at the high price, I stopped on my way home, and took a picture of the $3.25/gal sign at the BP station. Then, I stopped at another gas station, and took another picture of $3.25/gal sign

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[socalledeconomy]

Let's start pumping the CO2 into all the empty underground oil reservoirs-- there's a lot of empty space down there.

[valuesystem]

That's an interesting idea. I'm curious how much we could sequester in that way. 1%? 2%? I saw something a few days ago about carbon sequestration on one of the oil rigs in the North Sea. I didn't get the whole story though. I suppose that if the CO2 from a coal plant could be pumped into a oil well working on advanced recovery, that it would work out well from the energy extraction end of the equation. On the other hand, if the amount of carbon pumped out (oil) was greater than the carbon pumped in (CO2), then it is really still a losing scenario

[sir_bissel]

I've always wondered... what would happen if one equipped cars with small wind turbines combined with, say, solar panels and other such things. Obviously going 25 down a road wouldn't do much, but if you're taking a fairly long trip on a 55 - 70 mph road in an electric car or something, wouldn't it allow for a fair amount of energy to be ...gained(ish) (that is, you'd be discharging the energy, but at the same time putting at least some of it back... and if you could make it so that they were somehow aerodynamic, it wouldn't kill the energy saved with drag)

[valuesystem]

It sure would look cool, but it wouldn't generate any extra energy... at least not from the motion of the car, the energy lost to the drag would be greater than the energy recovered from the wind