A carbon neutral big island?

[Stephen Chase]

Damon, the carbon sequestration idea is a bandaid for the possibility of liquifying or otherwise using coal which the US has lots of. There's so much coal we could go back to driving hummers for several more generations before the strip mine wastes started piling up uncomfortably forcing us back to thinking about all these matters again. Maybe they could even be able to isolate the mercury that we are pumping out of our coal fired plants-the hugely ignored source of this polutant.

Thanks for bringing this thread forward again - so much to think about. It scares me that nuclear is being reconsidered in a new non-carbon generating light but putting those wastes underground seems even more ominous.