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On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:23:59 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
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"Bill Noble" wrote in message
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this does not ring true - have you ever been in Oman? in the early 70s,
the country had 7 miles total of paved roads, no real schools, and the
sultan had orders out to shoot on sight anyone seen out after dark not
carrying a lantern. This is not the kind of country that would look
forward 40 years and say "oh, some time in the future we will have
natural
gas without carbon dioxide, so if we fund a british research institution
to say that CO2 is bad, we will make lots of money" - no, it doesn't
pass
the giggle test

It may be the dumbest conspiracy theory we've ever seen here, and that's
saying something. g

Delingpole is a novelist and sometime journalist who runs a notorious
warming-conspiracy kitchen in which he cooks up some bizarro stuff. If you
read this one carefully, you have the coal companies and the Middle East
oil
companies conspiring to promote gas and nuclear.

Whoopie! Where are the wood-pellet interests in this? They must be
somewhere. Or maybe it's the makers of silicon ingots....d8-)

CO2 is quite often found in association with natural gas and since gas
is sold essentially based on BTU content the removal of CO2 from the
produced gas is a normal part of gas processing. The process is not a
new one and it is hardly uncommon.

CO2 when combined with water forms an acid and pipeline operators are
always concerned about any percentage of CO2 in a shipped gas which
will cause deterioration of their pipeline.

In addition CO2 is a salable product in itself thus separation and
separate sale of CO2 is economically logical.

Regards,

J.B.

Uh, Ok. I've having trouble keeping up. Does this add to or subtract from
the conspiracy theory? Or is it an interesting aside?

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Ed Huntress