Debby
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- East coast of Canada
I was looking at my FB feed the other day and I came across an article that was so interesting and relevant that I sent links to our Federal Environment Minister and to the Environment Ministers of two of our provinces which are still burning coal for electricity (although I know one of them fully intends to get out of coal).
A factory owner in India has outfitted his plant to capture the carbon it emits and change it into soda ash which actually has a market value in the production of baking soda and as an ingredient in detergents! Zero carbon emissions from that plant! Isn't that wonderful? This is the sort of thing the world is looking for (among many others
). Which is why I sent it to those Ministers. Wouldn't it be great if we saw this kind of technology spreading sooner rather than later? I wonder if the technology could be used on other kinds of plants where they fuel with oil or natural gas?
So for those of you who are interested in this kind of thing, here's the link: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/coal-burning-plant-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-baking-soda/
'...The Tuticorin zero-emission factory is a coal-fueled power plant that has invented a revolutionary system to trap the CO2 emissions from the coal boiler and turn them into soda ash – which can be used to make baking soda and a variety of other compounds with many uses, including detergents and sweeteners. The factory states that the process has reduced its carbon emissions to virtually zero and on top of that, the production of baking soda prevents an estimated 60,000 tons of CO2 emissions from entering the world’s atmosphere each year. Not only is this technique an incredible scientific discovery, it is a revolutionary economic tactic as well.The Tuticorin factory will be the first factory to make CO2 emission reductions profitable. Ramachadran Gopalan, the factory’s owner, told the BBC, “I am a businessman. I never thought about saving the planet. I needed a reliable stream of CO2, and this was the best way of getting it.” Never the less, scientists estimate that this new technique could be used to prevent 10 percent of the world’s carbon emissions due to coal....'
A factory owner in India has outfitted his plant to capture the carbon it emits and change it into soda ash which actually has a market value in the production of baking soda and as an ingredient in detergents! Zero carbon emissions from that plant! Isn't that wonderful? This is the sort of thing the world is looking for (among many others
). Which is why I sent it to those Ministers. Wouldn't it be great if we saw this kind of technology spreading sooner rather than later? I wonder if the technology could be used on other kinds of plants where they fuel with oil or natural gas?So for those of you who are interested in this kind of thing, here's the link: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/coal-burning-plant-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-baking-soda/
'...The Tuticorin zero-emission factory is a coal-fueled power plant that has invented a revolutionary system to trap the CO2 emissions from the coal boiler and turn them into soda ash – which can be used to make baking soda and a variety of other compounds with many uses, including detergents and sweeteners. The factory states that the process has reduced its carbon emissions to virtually zero and on top of that, the production of baking soda prevents an estimated 60,000 tons of CO2 emissions from entering the world’s atmosphere each year. Not only is this technique an incredible scientific discovery, it is a revolutionary economic tactic as well.The Tuticorin factory will be the first factory to make CO2 emission reductions profitable. Ramachadran Gopalan, the factory’s owner, told the BBC, “I am a businessman. I never thought about saving the planet. I needed a reliable stream of CO2, and this was the best way of getting it.” Never the less, scientists estimate that this new technique could be used to prevent 10 percent of the world’s carbon emissions due to coal....'
