Energy Research Highlights-2

Highlights the research NETL is doing in the following fields: Clean Coal,
Gasification, Carbon Sequestration, and Hydrogen. This video was featured in the lobby of the Forrestal building in Washington, D.C.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Clean
• Coal
• Gasification
• Carbon
• Sequestration
• Hydrogen
• research

[ptireland]

@MarkProffitt Actually coal mining kills 24.8 per 100,000 employees per year in America while agricultural employees are 25.1 because they don't have the tight restrictions that mining does. Many of these deaths could be avoided by regulating farms to prevent children from working on them and keeping tighter controls on dangerous chemicals and pesticides. I call that a wash. You're insane if you think we need more carbon in the air or that less carbon is damaging the earth.

[ptireland]

@MarkProffitt You can't have it both ways. If it's corn, you complain that it takes away from the food supply. If it's something else, you complain that food could be grown instead. You want to talk strawmen? We have more than enough food being grown in America and the world. Food is not in short supply, especially in America.

[ptireland]

@MarkProffitt Totally disingenuous. Corn cannot be grown without pesticides and it erodes soil. Hemp does not require pesticides and strengthens the soil, even when not rotating crops. It does not damage the soil at all. Industrial hemp can be used for biomass fuel, industrial lubricants, plastics, etc. and the fact that it is generally not grown for food is a good thing because growing it does not pull from the food supply.

[MarkProffitt]

@ptireland Strawman argument (hahaha). Corn can be grown without pesticides with the same or better yields using permaculture techniques which would also produce other food crops and improve the fertility of the soil. Mono-crops of hemp would be just as damaging as any other mono-crop. While hemp is edible, alone it is not sufficient for human or animal feed. Plus if it's used for fuel it isn't being used for food. Any bio-diesel except from a waste product will reduce food production.

[MarkProffitt]

@ptireland According to the U.S. Department of Labor 28 people die per year from mining accidents & 1300 are killed in farming accidents. 0.042% of farmers die per years but only 0.027% of miners. Mining 155% safer than farming.

Carbon from air is what makes plants. Nearly the exact amount of carbon in buried coal and oil is the amount needed for plants to cover all the deserts of the earth. Until the deserts are green again a net reduction of carbon is damaging the Earth.

[ptireland]

@MarkProffitt One more thing, hemp has 3 growing seasons so you can grow more of it per acre than corn. It's clean, renewable, doesn't require pesticides, grows in virtually any climate within America, etc.

How many people die mining coal? Thousands. How many die farming? A tiny fraction of the number who die mining coal. There is also the damage to the planet coal causes while hemp on the other hand does not damage the earth and creates a net reduction in carbon emissions.

[ptireland]

@MarkProffitt Actually that's false. When using hemp or algae as the biodiesel fuel source instead of corn, you are not pulling away from the food supply, you don't require dangerous pesticides, and the soil is strengthened rather than being depleted as it is with corn.Also, any of those sources could be used for transportation if you are using an electric engine. Coal is inefficient, dirty, dangerous to acquire, and no matter what anyone says, there is no such thing as clean coal.

[MarkProffitt]

@laraeventide Check out his video to learn more about gasification. watch?v=0PZr9uXegZw This guy focuses on using biomass feed stock, but remember that coal is just stored biomass currently not being used. So in other words, it's solar energy.

[MarkProffitt]

@luisalberto363 CO2 is plant food. CH4 is methane which is a fuel the burns clean in to CO2 which is plant food. Yes, coal gasification is great for planet and provides all the energy needed for 800+ years.

[MarkProffitt]

@laraeventide It doesn't produce CO2 it releases trapped CO2 that used to be plants on the surface of the planet. If you do the math you will find the carbon trapped in coal and oil matches the amount needed for plants and trees to cover the desert areas of the Earth. And those plants will absorb and use the water now trapped in ice so the greenest thing you can do is to release the trapped CO2 in coal and oil. Restore the global forest. :)