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CO2 Capture and Storage Gains a Growing Foothold

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CO2 Capture and Storage Gains a Growing Foothold

The drive to extract and store CO2 from coal-fired power plants is gaining momentum, with the Obama administration backing the technology and the world’s first capture and sequestration project now operating in the U.S. Two questions loom: Will carbon capture and storage be affordable? And will it be safe? by David Biello, Editor of Scientific […]

Messing with Mother Nature—Building Dams and/or Levee Systems on Medium and Large River Systems

By Jerry_Toman on July 8, 2009 Comments Off on Messing with Mother Nature—Building Dams and/or Levee Systems on Medium and Large River Systems Arizona State University, Belo Monte, Brazil, California, CAPE, Caspian Sea, Central Valley Water Project, China, Colorado River, Convective Available Potential Energy, dead-zones, Egypt, El Nino, Electric Plant at Niagara, global weather cycles, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, High Aswan Dam, hydraulic systems, Jerry J. Toman, large dams, levee system, Madeira River, Martin J. Pasqualetti, Mississippi River Basin, natural ecosystems, Netherlands, New Orleans, Nile, petroleum, Philip M. Fearnside, rock weathering, San Joaquin-Sacramento River, Scott Kelly, subtropical, Three Gorges Dam, topsoil, trace-mineral fertilization, tropical, Tucurui Project, Volga

This, the second article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon–Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change — the Top Ten Policies that Feed It; Two New Technologies (and One Old) that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the unintended side effects of large dams and levee systems. It specifically discusses how they are causing serious environmental problems downstream that are becoming more damaging than the benefits that these dams and levee systems provide. In many ways this cautionary tale is applicable to many other technological and large scale engineering interventions into natural systems, especially when these technologies and engineered systems are not well understood.