20 February 2012

The fossil fuel industry claims that we can "bury" CO2 to slow down climate change.

CSS is the method of Capture and Sequestration of CO2, developed in response to questions on how to stabilize the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in order to slow down climate change. One proposed way to diminish the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been to store it, because CO2 can be stored in geologic formations.
There has been a lot of doubt about this method, though, and numerous scientists and engineers from top-tier schools have called attention to the fact that in order for this to be even remotely effective, we'd have to built an industry around it comparable to the world's gasoline industry.  And some say that it often doesn't work. Oil formations depend on impenetrable cap rock, which makes them singularly appropriate for this method, but even then the enormous job of isolating so much CO2 under enormous pressure, and then keeping it there for 10,000 years is unbelievable.
Do you think CSS is a viable option?

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