Glenn Beck Touting Some New Scrubber Technology

Glenn Beck talking to Sterling Burnett about some new scrubber technology and blaming environmentalists for blocking it. I would love to know if anyone knows more about what this man is talking about. From what I know of traditional scrubbers on power plants they can't even be used on some existing plants because of the amount of space they take up. Utilities aren't too hip to install them since they take a maintenance crew equal to the one already in place to maintain the plant to keep them running so they're expensive, and they can result in load reductions because they inhibit the air flow coming out of the units. I also have a really hard time believing that Al Gore would oppose some viable means of removing CO2 from the air if it's something that is going to work and not some scam, or something that doesn't cause more problems than it fixes. I'll look into this later but it smelled of BS to me. If anyone would care to add in the comments any info they have on this guy and this new technology he's talking about it would be appreciated.

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News & Politics

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• Glenn
• Beck
• Sterling
• Burnett
• CO2
• Scrubbers

[mexcurmudgeon]

Does this scrubber also emit Oxygen? If not, plants and trees still do it better.

[videocafeblog]

Well I've read some of the ones using algae tubes do but I don't think that's what he's talking about.

[RandomSnot]

Typical GB shit

1 ton of CO2 a day. Great, How much power does it use?.

Not much point in having a CO2 srubber that removes 1 ton of CO2 a day if it puts 20 tones CO2 into the atmosphere a day by burnin shit just to power the damn thing is there?.

but no, don't worry the viewers with important techinical info. Just spout out a bunch of rheoric.

[MassiveLemon]

I'm just asking everyone to read "The Republican War on Science."

[carolson]

Glen Beck is just the biggest puppet that Fox has to tout they're corporate agenda by fooling the stupid.

[langbein82]

this guy is more polluting than a coal factory.. bet this guy drives to work every day in a giant SUV which consumes a shitload of fuel, and he probably has a smile on his face thinking.. "there is no global warming" "SOx does not kill people"

[MockStoneLLC]

ok from what that guy said, hes got things messed up i think, this co2 scrubber works off a chemical reaction that makes co2 into oxygen. they sell them alredy, i think 25000 but there not as powerful.

[packrat76]

No, it's not. You do realize that most countries are so far unable to meet the Kyoto reduction goals? China is exempt for years to come.

[Awsumgrl96]

Yeah, but we should still try to help the environment no matter what! Who needs to take the car EVERYWHERE?! Why else would we have legs? Why do we need our heating on REALLY high?! That's why we have sweaters and clothes to stay warm! I mean , it's not THAT hard.

[blair227]

Maybe that new scrubber can be used by Beck to get that shit off his nose from having it up all the NEOCON asses he's sucked on for the last several years.

[ikvsabre]

Not really, no.

STOP CO2 at the SOURCE... it's far more efficient, and way easier.

[key10key]

Therefore it's not worth pursuing and applauding their efforts?