Pipelines from around this area would have to go over mountains to get to the ocean. Many coal mines are in mountains - they blow the tops off to get to it. (Didn't intend to imply all coal emissions must go over mountains.)

LanDroid wrote:Pipelines from around this area would have to go over mountains to get to the ocean. Many coal mines are in mountains - they blow the tops off to get to it. (Didn't intend to imply all coal emissions must go over mountains.)

Cincinnati is about the last place you would go for algae CO2 feedstock, being so far from water. It would even be possible for the US to develop algae farms on the Great Lakes, but they would source CO2 from shoreline cities. The overall purpose is to clean up the environment in a way that is profitable and can be supported by the existing energy industry. My view is that this is a sustainable method to recycle the carbon in coal. Algae factories would completely change the economics of the coal industry, removing the economic basis for highly destructive methods and locations, since the purpose of coal mining would change to just be the first introduction of useful carbon into a recycled system. It is a paradigm shift, from both current fossil extraction and also from emission reduction.