Carbon dioxide stored at the bottom of the sea? It just might work...
The new paper on carbon capture and storage demonstrates that the hydrates become an impermeable ‘cap’ that keeps the carbon dioxide below it from migrating back up to the sea floor
New York — A Cold War-era joke has an American economist asking a Soviet peer how the communist economy is progressing. "In a word: good" the Russian responds. "In two words: not good." So it goes this century with the rapidly changing energy industry. Advances are taking place in clean energy, transport and efficiency that may have rightfully been considered miraculous a decade ago. But here’s the catch: as fast as everything is proceeding, it’s still not fast enough. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported last year that a critical technology — capturing carbon dioxide emissions from generators and either burying or otherwise disposing of them — isn’t expanding fast enough. The IEA reported that current carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities are capable of handling just 7.5% of the emissions the world will need eliminated every year by 2025. This is necessary if nations are to meet the goal of keeping any increase in global warming below 2°C.
In China, researcher...
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