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Long-Term Carbon Storage

Posted by timothy on from the after-all-what-could-go-wrong dept.

zebadee writes "The UK has given £25 million ($45 million) in funding toward storing CO2 under the North Sea. The article at the BBC has a discussion on how this will be achieved. Basically gases produced at the power station will be pumped into old oil and gas fields for long-term storage. This has the added effect of pressurising the wells, allowing better recovery of the contents."

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  1. Oh yes! by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    At first I thought it said "Long-Term Carbon Shortage"... I was like, WTF?!
    I read it correctly, but I interpreted the headline to mean archiving information (long-term backups, etc.) using buckyballs or something similar.
    My reaction was "Cool!".
    A DVD/CD made from nanotubes would be able to withstand much higher rotation speeds, meaning faster I/O.
    Imagine a 200x drive!
    You wouldn't be able to have them in laptops, though, because of the gyroscopic effects.
    --
    Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana