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French boost for SA carbon capture

Nov 27, 2009 11:39 AM | By Sapa

A French development agency has extended a R1.568 million loan to the Central Energy Fund's carbon capture and storage efforts, it says.


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"We view this partnership with the CEF of significant importance, particularly during the current energy crisis in the country," Agence Française de Développement (AFD) chief executive Jean-Michel Severino said in a statement.

AFD is the French arm for international co-operation.

"It will be one of the country's most promising measures for climate change mitigation."

Carbon capture and storage was currently the only technology available to make an impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while still using fossil fuels and existing energy infrastructure, he said.

According to the statement, the partnership between the AFD and the CEF began in 2007 with the launch of a R7.2 million project to increase energy efficiency and renewable energies in the South African economy.

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Nov 30 2009 07:27:07 AM
steveninthematrix
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RIDICULOUS!

CO2 makes up 0.035% of the atmosphere

(78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, the rest mostly argon and water vapour)

1000's of years ago, the was 300-500% more CO2 in the atmosphere, and the earth was doing great, the polar bears survived...

global warming is for global government (that term is used in the copenhagen treaty), and to bring in a global taxation and cap&trade scheme, to utterly destroyed modern industrialized society..

deforestation, bad, pollution, bad, the american military dumping 6 million tons of nerve gas into the ocean, bad..

but CO2 is not a poison, its what PLANTS EAT! the more there is and the warmer the planet is, the faster plants can be harvested...

google 'climategate', the scientists have been busted cooking the books and lying...

go to

globalwarminglies.com
prisonplanet.com
petittionproject.com

petititon project, is 31000 scientists, who disagree with Al Gore and the UN, but no mainstream media will cover them...

protect the earth from the international bankers and corporations who lie to you about the hoax of Co2

most co2 is from the oceans, rotting tissue and volcanoes, humans produce only 5-7% of it.... plants eat it, there were times in the earth's history of 5X more co2...

and when floating ice melts, the water(sea)level, goes down!!, ice is LESS DENSE than water....

the water level can never rise because floating ice is melting!



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