This quote happened at a talk on carbon sequestration today. They were specifically talking about storing CO2 under the earth’s crust dissolved in huge aquifers. When this hypothetical carbon storage breaks out, it’s bad. The participants are Charismatic Guest-Lecturer from Princeton (CGP) and World’s Awesomest Advisor (WAA).
CGP (salesman voice): Of course, if this were in an inhabited area, maybe it would break through at a little girl’s slumber party and kill everyone.
WAA (in a tone of attentive interest): I was thinking a day care in West Virginia, but go on.
Maybe you had to be there. But I thought it was great. These sorts of exchanges really warm my heart. On the bus ride back to my campus, I was chatting with a fellow humphrey lecture attendee, and I told her about the Kansas City Hotel Disaster (and got it partially wrong; I placed it at least 3 decades before it actually happened and overestimated the death toll) where 114 people died and over two hundred were injured because some guy too “smart” for anyone’s good decided on a last minute design modification which actually left the structure insecure. Maybe I just have a woodie for the macabre.
What do you think about carbon sequestration through reforestration (and cutting the wood to do stuff, and reforesting some more)?
You know, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of Kyoto Protocol has approved ZERO reforestration projects so far.
Do you know anyone who works on this field?
WAA and apparently CGP both are. I could get you their names in email if interested.
Yea, that would be really good. josephgavin@gmail.com
🙂
Did I ever get you their names? I can’t remember his any more, but I can certainly get you hers…
I don’t think so. Will be great to get them, thx