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15. We would need 15,000,000 similar storage units to store the equivalent of 1 PPM CO2

Tue Aug 6, 2013, 08:23 PM

Aug 2013

I have no idea where they're getting the notion that we could conceivably store 900 years of CO2 emissions.

Something's not adding up.

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And compressed gas underground *could* leak back out ... eppur_se_muova Aug 2013 #1

You�re missed the whole point of this approach OKIsItJustMe Aug 2013 #3

Yes ... react *slowly*. eppur_se_muova Aug 2013 #9

Gas, sealed beneath a layer of basalt OKIsItJustMe Aug 2013 #10

Well stated. kristopher Aug 2013 #17

That's the point of using this particular geology Yo_Mama Aug 2013 #5

I can't help but think GliderGuider Aug 2013 #2

Right, much better to do nothing. OKIsItJustMe Aug 2013 #4

Actually, I think it is. GliderGuider Aug 2013 #6

No, I'd go and do something else with my energy. GliderGuider Aug 2013 #8

CCS had better be on the menu OKIsItJustMe Aug 2013 #11

CCS actually can help reduce carbon OKIsItJustMe Aug 2013 #13

Good luck with it. GliderGuider Aug 2013 #14

Well, we might suspect it is your math that is at fault OKIsItJustMe Aug 2013 #16

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