Alex Sayre
12:08
May 2nd
This just in! Co2 clogs our lungs our trees our atmosphere! What shall we do? Recent discoveries have found that semi-porous rocks in the North Sea can actually hold Carbon Dioxide! I have yet to use a period! Do you guys think I can keep it up? I DO! This semi porous rock has the potential to hold millions of tons of the gas in what is known as saline aquifers. Well that didn’t last very long… Oh man I just used three in a row! This process of storing the CO2 in rocks would create tons of business for countries nearest to the area mainly for Scotland. Professors at Edinburgh discovered this process to store the greenhouse gas emissions where these saline aquifers hold them for years.
I am actually really skeptical about this relief on the huge load renewable energy has to cover. For one what major problems would occur when the carbon dioxide is placed into the rock? Would it have a chemical reaction with so much of the material affecting possible sea life (small stuff like zooplankton) and exactly how long would it stay down there. This method of helping our planet definitely needs some heavy research if it hopes to be successful.
And that ends my story telling. Thanks for reading and I enjoyed the class and everyone’s (mostly) ideas and comments. Haha.
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/39827
3 comments:
Eco friend technology and research has never sounded so EXCITING!! Finding a way to store up excess Co2 and allow emerging technologies to make a dent in the Co2 cloud around our world is some of the best news I've heard all weak but it seems to only be a stop gap measure?! Maybe it'll give us just the amount of time we need to clean up our act?
It's an exciting prospect, but I agree that much research is needed if we hope to utilize this technique on a large scale. It would sort of defeat the purpose if a green technology actually ended up having other disastrous effects on the environment.
I agree that this sounds exciting and that so much research is needed. It would be amazing to use this idea.
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