Engineering360: "Insight:Carbon Capture and Sequestration Face an Uphill Battle"

Since carbon is so difficult and expensive to sequester, and since it is so important to reduce the amount of carbon emissions, is there any rational way to solve this problem? I love a complex solution, but it seems that we do not really need one.

It seems to me that CCS is just a very expensive and still really unproven stopgap measure to keep the fossil fuel industry on life support. It has the certainty of large ongoing maintenance issues which must be added to the energy cost as well as the potential for huge catastophic system failure. It would be far better to put the time, energy, money and human capital used for this, toward further improving solar, wind, tidal and other renewable, largely nonpolluting technologies many of which are already cost competitive.

I was attempting to be ironic. I agree with you.

What about the work done in Iceland mixing CO2 with Saltwater and injecting it into magnesium rich volcanic rock (basalt) and turning it into magnesite? That seems to work in a two year period rather that the natural process which takes on the order of ten thousand years.