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Better Geology Needed to Store Carbon Dioxide
2013-07-10 12:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Anybody planning to burn fossil fuels without releasing greenhouse gases -- in other words, capturing and storing the carbon dioxide -- will have to think long and hard: Long, because the carbon must be kept secure for thousands of years, hard because even the hardest rocks yield under pressure. Or so say researchers looking at the pitfalls of one proposed climate change solution. Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology exists and is already one potential amelioration of the greenhouse...
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