Re: Klarenberg: 'Wikipedia and UK Government move to censor climate debate' Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on July 29, 2023, 12:18 am, in reply to "Re: Klarenberg: 'Wikipedia and UK Government move to censor climate debate'"
Hi, yes I remember that - congrats on landing it, if it works out for you & your family. Any criticism I make of the industry is not intended as a criticism of you personally, in case that's not clear (you seem pretty clear-eyed about it anyway). 'Pumping gas into oil wells is a standard technique of pressurising oil wells and improving oil extraction. And no, the gas does not escape.' Ok, I'm probably thinking of fracked wells where the pressure has opened fissures in the rock allowing gases to seep up to the surface. 'There is already extensive pipeline network in place from the North Sea oil extraction.' Didn't think of that, I suppose that could be quite simple, and maybe the scrubbed CO2 could be pressurised and used to extract more oil/nat gas at the same time? Though there would be a certain amount of irony in calling that sequestration if it was enabling more fossil fuel extraction! 'Unless one decides to say stop giving the population any electricity leading to the collapse of life as we know it, the power station is a good option, except this time there is no CO2.' Well, there are ghg emissions involved in all other aspects of the process, but point taken. Agreed on the long term solution, my concern is that sequestration/storage technologies are actually another step away from that because they will end up enabling more fossil fuel extraction, thus prolonging and deepening our dependency on them and worsening the crash when it eventually comes. Immediate stone age would be disastrous, but not as disastrous as immediate stone age in 50 years' time when there are no pollinating insects left or fish in the rivers & oceans. cheers, I
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