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Storage under high pressure is not the only researched investigation - several carbon capture schemes are investigating if captured CO2 pumped underground can be associated with, for instance, gypsum and form a stable mineral at depth. This takes away the rupturing risk associated with underground pressurized CO2 reservoirs.

Unfortunately, the first tentative results I know of have been mixed and the energy needed to pump CO2 underground remains.

by Nomad on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 07:37:35 AM EST
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Is that even feasible in terms of scale? How many gigatons/y could such a system reasonably be scaled up to?

"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 09:25:21 AM EST
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This research is an approach of carbonisation that's truly in its infancy and there's the real possibility it will have to be abandoned.

The geological packages under consideration are salt and rocks, mostly. It all depends on reaction rates - and finding those out is part of the research. There's very little known on the kinetics of mineral formation at non-atmospheric pressures and temperatures.

Will know more in January; apparently there's a publication in the pipeline.

by Nomad on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 12:25:43 PM EST
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