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Trapping Carbon Dioxide Underground: Can We Do It?

2013-07-02 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Live Science: In a policy address last week, President Barack Obama made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States a key priority in the nation's fight against climate change. Now, a newly released geological report points to a promising way to cut down on the amount of harmful carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere: inject and store it inside rocks deep underground. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a detailed assessment and found 36 regions across the country that have the...

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Centuries worth of CO2 emissions could be stored underground, but at what cost?

2013-06-28 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: We could liquefy and cram our carbon dioxide emissions into the ground for some 500 years before America`s geologic basins started to overflow with the stuff. That`s according to a new assessment by federal scientists, who spent years scouring America for porous rocks thousands of feet beneath the ground that might be appropriate for carbon sequestration. They studied 36 geologic basins that could be suitable and found that the best region for storing waste CO2 would be the Gulf Coast. From...

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225,000 Investment in Electricity Underground Infrastructure

2013-06-28 20:18:00| Transmission & Distribution World

A major project to underground overhead power cables and enhance the landscape of the village of Goulceby, UK, a recognized area of natural beauty, has been completed in a joint project between Western Power Distribution (WPD) and the Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service. read more

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