Dump All Your Carbon Emissions in Alberta, Pitches Smith | The Tyee
Dump All Your Carbon Emissions in Alberta, Pitches Smith | The Tyee
The premier, in a Tyee interview, makes sweeping claims for carbon capture technology.
It's a shame that she can't comprehend just how ridiculous she sounds to rational human beings.
Way to vote for a gigantic loser, Calgary. Do you like it when the whole country is laughing at us because of this fuckin moron speaking on our behalfs? I don't.
A lot of folks are thrilled with her. I dipped into the Calgary herald YouTube comments the other day and it's largely climate denial, smug self centered fatalism, and conspiracy theories.
It’s a shame that she can’t comprehend just how ridiculous she sounds to rational human beings.
She knows. She just doesn't care.
She was elected by virtue of oil money and protofascist resentment, and as long as she stokes the latter, the money will keep flowing into the former. She can sound as stupid as she wants, she's playing to her audience and doesn't care what anyone else thinks.
See: Poillevre and his "wooooooooooke!" nonsense. We know it's dangerous nonsense, and he (Poillevre) knows it's dangerous nonsense. But is' dangerous nonsense that gets them votes, because it plays to what their protofascist base wants to hear, and it gets them donations and board seats and reciprocal business from their backers.
USA: First time?
I swear the Alberta cons looked at Trump and said: "We've been doing it all wrong, trying NOT to take things too far!"
She hasn’t changed my opinion on Albertans at all
Just reinforced it
Or, we could simply stop extracting the massive amount of carbon that's already nicely sequestered in Alberta in the form of bitumen.
“So what we would do is we would capture the CO2, inject nitrogen, transport it as ammonia and send it to Japan"
I've been struggling to find more details on the specific process she's talking about. As far as I'm aware, you can't sequester carbon dioxide in the form of ammonia, since ammonia doesn't contain carbon or oxygen. So that must mean they use pre-existing ammonia (produced via natural gas) to transport the CO2 underground. But that can be done in a closed loop, so shipping it to Japan seems like an entirely separate process, that uses a bunch of energy in both ammonia production and shipping, so that Japan can add more NOx gases to the atmosphere.
Make it make sense.
What purpose does japan have for this ammonia in the end? what do they use it for?
They burn it for energy in place of burning coal