Geologic Carbon Sequestration

Climate change provides strong motivation to reduce CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide capture and storage involves the capture, compression, and transport of CO2 to geologically favorable areas, where its injected into porous rock more than one kilometer underground for permanent storage. Curt Oldenburg, who heads Berkeley Labs Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program, focuses on the challenges, opportunities, and research needs of this innovative technology. Series: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Summer Lecture Series [9/2009] [Science] [Show ID: 17050]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• climate
• carbon
• dioxide
• fossil
• fuels
• geology

[michaelaK67]

very interesting talk...I didn't realise the research had come such a long way already....it's just that I find the whole approach unreasonable. Isn't this the same as trying to find ever more landfill sites for our rubbish/trash rather than stopping us creating so much waste in the first place?

[GooseTarget]

How is this sustainable? It is just a short cut that doesn't get to the root of the problem. It just delays and compounds the problem.

[arcoulson]

Um...without even watching this...wasn't the fossil fuel in "underground storage" to begin with, naturally? I mean the carbon didn't get "crated" by humans, yeah? So one might say that we're "restoring" the original natural state, by putting the carbon back underground where we got it from.

[BadAttitude2009]

i turn off my car instead of letting it idol when picking up my grandchild at school, it all adds up to cleaner air. that's what i tell my 4 kids and 9 grandkids to do with there 23 cars. i have an aunt that is 97 years old she has 211 kids, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, etc. the problem is over population. (butt fuck instead) sucky sucky bitches!!!!

[chevick]

This idea is absurd.

[BGBurch]

I'd ask you to look at the program "Unstoppable Solar Cycles" here on YouTube. From what I'm understanding now is that CO2's are not that big of a problem, and that the sun is really the main driver of our climate. The plants and trees love CO2"s. We need cleaner air, water, etc. but let's try and look at the overall picture. Al Gore has  fudged reality the program I mention here tells us that ice samples reveal warming has taken place several hundred years before CO2's increase on the earth.

[Plutonwolf]

Perhaps, as an adjunct to the injection and storage, we could also experiment with injecting selected micro-organisms into the mix to perhaps render the carbon dioxide into either a more stable matrix or, even better, a new fuel source? It's worth looking into. The fuel scenario would, most likely be a multi human generational project, but we, as a species must start thinking this way.