Carbon burial plan for North Sea

[jpak]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4786736.stm

British and Norwegian oil companies have announced plans to bury carbon dioxide under the bed of the North Sea.

Statoil and Shell plan to take CO2 from a power station in Norway and pipe it to an oil field, where it will be used to force oil to the surface.

The $1.2bn-1.5bn scheme will require major investment from governments.

The process of carbon sequestration is viewed by some as a partial solution to climate change, but can also help companies exploit oil reserves further.

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[electropop]

1. Not a bad idea,

if it really works the way they expect.

[drm604]

2. I'm very skeptical of this kind of carbon sequestration.

How do we know for sure that it's stable? What happens some day if it suddenly comes out in one big bubble?

[papau]

4. The CO2 bubble happened in Africa where a village was wiped

out. Scientific American did a report a few years back on the event.

But this was not gas pumped into the ground.

The ground just held the gas and one day it burped.

[drm604]

5. Yes.

I remember that incident. That gas, if I recall correctly, had collected due to volcanic activity; but it's the same principle.

[rfkrfk]

3. this is a charade

they're just doing what they want to do,
temporarily boosting pressure in the oil formation,
at somebody else's {the people's} expense.
are European people really stupid enough to
not see thru the scam?

edit, typo

[phantom power]

7. Megadittos. They're doing it already.

[mom cat]

6. Here is a much better idea:

Posted 1/10/2006 11:11 PM Updated 1/10/2006 11:11 PM








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By Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor
BOSTON — Isaac Berzin is a big fan of algae. The tiny, single-celled plant, he says, could transform the world's energy needs and cut global warming.

A smokestack at the Mitchell Power Plant in Moundsville, W. Va.
Charles P.Saus, AP

Overshadowed by a multibillion-dollar push into other "clean-coal" technologies, a handful of tiny companies are racing to create an even cleaner, greener process using the same slimy stuff that thrives in the world's oceans.

Enter Dr. Berzin, a rocket scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. About three years ago, while working on an experiment for growing algae on the International Space Station, he came up with the idea for using it to clean up power-plant exhaust.

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[eppur_se_muova]

8. VERY neat idea. I'm surprised he got all the angles to work at once. nt