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As everyone knows, the manufacturing industry produces huge quantities of carbon emissions. Many pollutants can be scrubbed as they leave industrial smokestacks, including nitrogen oxides, and sulphur compounds and particulates. But not carbon dioxide—until now.
CO2 Solution first emerged in 1997 from original research conducted at Laval University in Quebec. The Laval labs found a new way to isolate CO2 from gaseous emissions and immobilize it in an inert solid.Field-trial demonstrations and larger pilot projects followed. In 2005, the technology met or exceeded performance and reliability expectations during a multi-day, round-the-clock field test at a garbage incinerator in Quebec City.
"We are actively pursuing opportunities in other key [non-concrete] end markets, such as iron and steel, and in Alberta oil sands," says Jacques Raymond, president and CEO of CO2 Solution.
If used in older power-generating plants alone, the technology has the potential to sequester nearly two billion tonnes of CO2 each year — an amount roughly equal to all the carbon dioxide emitted by every passenger vehicle in North America.
Wouldn’t it be great if the whole climate change panic could be solved by new technology—invented in Canada, to boot. Al Gore could get back to his real job (whatever that is).
I hate to be a cynical pessimist, but it occurs to me that Mr Gore and his fellow social engineering enthusiasts would probably find another excuse to try to control our lives.
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Paintings: Albrecht Dürer, The Apostle James and The Apostle Philip, 1516. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.