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Elizabeth Nickson, an experienced and talented researcher and journalist, has now added the carbon capture swindlers to her list of evil. The Summit Carbon Solutions scheme is a solution for a problem that doesn't exist except in that the CO2 they're proposing to move around the country doesn't need to be produced by fermenting corn into alcohol for a motor fuel additive anyway.
During the entire history of internal combustion engines experiments have been conducted with different substances to fuel them. Alcohol in varying proportions with gasoline was used as a solution to both air pollution and the "oil crisis" of the '70s and '80s.
Government mandates and subsidies have led to the construction of a total of 192 plants mostly in the American midwest with a production capacity of 17,380,000,000 gallons annually. According to John Phipps at AgWeb.com an average ethanol plant produces about 150,000 metric tons of CO2 per year through the fermenting process itself. Only 43 US ethanol plants capture any CO2, the rest is vented to the atmosphere. Phipps says that a 500 megawatt coal power house produces about 3.5 million tons. What this comparison is meant to illustrate is a mystery. The production of a an electrical generating station and an ethanol plant aren't even remotely related.
Be sure and read Nickson's article linked to above.
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