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CARBON CAPTURE AT DRAX POWER STATION

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The original DRAX power station was build next to a huge coalfield so it would be the ideal site to bury any captured carbon.   Possibly the best fuel for DRAX would be reclaimed scrap plastics as it has pulverising plant that can be adapted to pulverise plastics mixed with scrap wood collected from our garden refuse bins. 

Using fresh wood, that has to be imported however, would lead to deforestation in some foreign land; an environmental disaster and is anyway hopelessly uneconomical because of the transportation costs.

Producing power by burning scrap refuse instead of burying it in landfill is surely, highly desirable.?
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    Thanks Mike.   Interestingly enough sea water has 410 parts per million of calcium which is only 0.04% but when you think of the size of an ocean it will contain millions of tons per cubic kilometre.   So what if we scrubbed the carbon dioxide in the exhaust of power stations by bubbling it into the sea water?

    Wikipedia has an article on chalk deposits in north and south downs being deposits formed 70 million years ago which could have been formed in the same way.  In fact the volcanic vents in the deep ocean are presumably creating chalk even now so it is not too environmentally unfriendly. There is a power station in South Wales at Aberthaw which if still running could convert to burning plasic/gargen waste and scrubb the CO2 out in the Bristol channel.
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    Thanks Mike.   Interestingly enough sea water has 410 parts per million of calcium which is only 0.04% but when you think of the size of an ocean it will contain millions of tons per cubic kilometre.   So what if we scrubbed the carbon dioxide in the exhaust of power stations by bubbling it into the sea water?

    Wikipedia has an article on chalk deposits in north and south downs being deposits formed 70 million years ago which could have been formed in the same way.  In fact the volcanic vents in the deep ocean are presumably creating chalk even now so it is not too environmentally unfriendly. There is a power station in South Wales at Aberthaw which if still running could convert to burning plasic/gargen waste and scrubb the CO2 out in the Bristol channel.
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