```Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano is emitting between 150,000 and 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day, a figure placing it in the same emissions league as a small-to-medium European economy, experts said on Monday.
Assuming the composition of gas to be the same as in an earlier eruption on an adjacent volcano, "the CO2 flux of Eyjafjoell would be 150,000 tonnes per day," Colin Macpherson, an Earth scientist at Britain's University of Durham, said in an email. Patrick Allard of the Paris Institute for Global Physics (IPGP) gave what he described as a "top-range" estimate of 300,000 tonnes per day. Both insisted that these were only approximate estimates. Extrapolated over a year, the emissions would place the volcano 47th to 75th in the world table of emitters on a country-by-country basis, according to a database at the World Resources Institute (WRI), which tracks environment and sustainable development. A 47th ranking would place it above Austria, Belarus, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland, according to this list, which relates to 2005. Experts stressed that the volcano contributed just a tiny amount – less than a third of one percentage point – of global emissions of greenhouse gases.```

1 in 10000 definitely off, but within the last 10000 years would be equal probably

There is such thing as a supereruption, but like I said, we'd know if it happened

There was a supereruption 70,000 years ago that sent the world into a volcanic winter for several years and produced a subsequent thousand-year cooling period according to **SCIENCE**

Damn it Indonesia

Stop farting so violently

I'm pretty sure Lake Toba alone released more CO2 than humanity has

isn't there a company that is developing a carbon extraction that turns it into feul pellets?

Yes

They're experimenting with carbon capture here in BC

Something Microsoft or Bill Gates invested in in Canada

If it's scalable then they can work on maybe turning it back into fuel

problem solved, no cap and trade needed, alernative feul as bonus. Environmental crisis averted

I think it's a good idea but it's not a replacement or anything

Really we're going to have to move to a system other than one size fits all, as annoying as that may be

nuclear

They’re doing carbon capture research in the states as well

I’ve seen a few postdocs for it lately while job searching

Yeah they're no where near going to be able to revert it, but density is pretty good on it, also it takes power to use it, but better than solar or lithium

Nuclear helps with electricity gen, but currently that's not a viable avenue for tankers or planes, unless you plan on making nuclear tankers and aircraft and talking people into hopping onboard

Electric planes 😎

Charged by nuke plants 😎

AFAIK we don't have batteries sufficient for large scale transport

They'll probably be oil fueled for some time

neighborhood nukes

And then there's the issue of plastics

100 years using waste from larger plants, eats it's own poop

Electric planes yuck

I don't really see how you'd make carbon capture viable in its own right. The energy to capture the CO2 and convert it to fuel is going to be more than the energy you get from the fuel

Have to be through chemical or biological processes

Comes with the other issues

The idea would be to use hydrogen in the conversion process iirc

Future direct-air capture plants will cost up to $400 per metric ton of captured carbon dioxide to operate, Gebald said, with carbon sequestration adding an additional $10-$20 to that cost per ton.

operational costs need to fall to about $100 per ton of captured carbon for the technology to be scalable.

Remember when it was $10000

carbon dioxide is removed and piped into nearby greenhouses, which will use 900 metric tons of captured carbon to grow crops each year.

this article was from 2017 so they might be closer now

Aircraft Carriers are already nuclear powered. It wouldn't be to much different to get tanker ships to run on nuclear. Nuclear planes won't happen

They had nuclear planes back in 45

really? didn't know that

Japan knows it

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