CO2 Emission Reduction

[Sigurd]

The goal should be to shut down all coal based powerplants and start building gas based powerplants with CO2 filters. Or plants with CO2 capturing devices that stores CO2 that we can pump back town into the oil/gas wells to bring up even more oil/gas.
A win win situation...

BTW can you tell I am working for a company named StatoilHydro?

[Husar]

Imagine this, one day oil will run out anyway and oil prices will rise and despite that we will be left with no oil anyway and then we didn't prepare for it and then?

[Rodion Romanovich]

The goal should be to shut down all coal based powerplants and start building gas based powerplants with CO2 filters. Or plants with CO2 capturing devices that stores CO2 that we can pump back town into the oil/gas wells to bring up even more oil/gas.
A win win situation...

BTW can you tell I am working for a company named StatoilHydro?

Hehe The capture devices/filters sound like a good idea, but is there no possibility to combine the capture+filter with a system to chemically bind the CO2 in a way that becomes a solid chemical compound, that would be easier to store (less volume, and less likely to leak)? If this were to be implemented, it would allow using the entire oil and coal reserves, which together are likely to be able to provide energy for over 100 years, thus solving both the oil shortage problem (from energy perspective) and too big amount of oil problem (from a global warming perspective). However, without checking population growth over the earth these 100 years may become less, and we'll be back at status quo when that point comes. In the ultra-long term, other alternatives are necessary, but in the medium-long term, I think capture - especially if it could be done into solid chemical compunds - is our best hope.