[LINK] IT systems should always be suspect -- brd.

[Antony Barry]

On 6 Nov 2004, at 11:12 AM, David Lochrin wrote:

>    That doesn't just apply to IT&C either.  Our esteemed Federal 
> Government is proposing a big technological solution to greenhouse 
> gasses - we pipe the output of exhaust stacks to a plant where the CO2 
> is extracted, liquefied, and piped maybe hundreds of kilometers to a 
> convenient geological structure where it stays forever without 
> escaping.

Globally nuclear power stations would be producing in the range of 
thousands of tons of material which need to be put safely someplace for 
tens of thousands of years if not hundreds. Fossil fuels however are 
dumping 7 trillion tons pa into the atmosphere and the carbon needs to 
be held for geologically significant times scales - at least millions 
of years. If we can't do the first I'm amazed to think that people 
could think we could do the second.

Tony

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