Primed; Some of the questions you asked have already been answered by other posters as well as yourself. Amazing what happens when you get thinking outside of the box. Check out carbon capture and sequestration on the web. Also Co2 injection, Kansas and West Texas. Internet has lots of info on those very subjects. Not new by any stretch.

We have been doing CO2 capture and injection in the Pembina oilfield for over 4 years. The co2 is collected and stored in the salt caverns at Ft Saskatchewan. It is stored until ready to be picked up by B-trains trucks, hauled to injection wells in the Pembina, and injected into the old and depleted oil wells. The project is a little trade secret coveted, so hard to get a lot of info on. That being said, we do know that it raised the bottom hole pressue of the pressure depleted oil wells surrounding the injection site. Co2 is heavier than water or oil & gas, so it went to the bottom of the oil bearing sand, floated the hard to get oil and gas to the top, and made it easier to collect with the existing pumps. If the pilot project works out, they will be running lines to the major oilfields and instead of trucking the Co2, they will pipeline it to the injection sites, and get carbon credits for getting rid of a Greenhouse gas. They are presently working on an E-Coli bacteria that converts carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide back into a hydrocarbon fuel for use in the future. Win Win.

I was not insinuating that we take the generator to the new site and plop it on top of the next hole. The fire burns for miles underground, and I believe that when smoke travels to the pipe where the air is injected, it can be prossessed there and the hydro carbon byproduct can then use the existing line we already have in place for oil and gas to feed the already in place power plants burning stripped coal.

Not to sure that I agree with you on the Nuclear Plants either. Problem is, if we prolifferate the use of Uranium, we always wind up with Crazys like North Korea that say they want it for power use and then use it for Weapons of Mass destruction. Does not matter how safe they make it for generating power, if it gets in the wrong hands, none of us will have to worry about power of any sort.

Do like the idea of solar and wind, and technology will no doubt reduce the area needed to produce energy from both of these sources. Check out Acta Energy Products, an Italian company doing great things with hydrogen produced from small amounts of water, and solar power from the sun. You will be impressed.

Anyway, thats my defence, my story, and I'm stickin to it. Rinky