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Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide

Posted by Unknown on from the delerium-tremens dept.

MTorrice writes "The same wells that energy companies drill to extract natural gas from shale formations could become repositories to store large quantities of carbon dioxide. A new computer model suggests that wells in the Marcellus shale, a 600-sq-mile formation in the northeastern U.S. that is a hotbed for gas extraction, could store half the CO2 emitted by the country's power plants from now until 2030."

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  1. Sounds like a great plan. by Wycliffe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's store the next 30 years worth of excess carbon dioxide in huge underground chambers
    so that instead of gradual climate change that the environment can adjust to and compensate
    for we instead have a massive catastrophic climate change when one of those chambers
    springs a leak.

  2. Right by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What could possibly go wrong?

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