U.S. sees ample room to bury CO2 but costs unknown - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. sees ample room to bury CO2 but costs unknown
Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:21 PM EDT

By Timothy Gardner

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and Canada have enough
storage capacity deep underground to bury greenhouse gas from
power plants for 900 years, but the costs are not yet known, an
office of the U.S. Department of Energy said.

The two countries could store more than 3,500 billion tons of carbon
dioxide, the main gas scientists link to global warming, mostly in
underground saline formations, an official at DOE's National Energy
Technology Laboratory said.

"The capacity sites are very widespread. They cover the majority
of the area in the United States and a good bit of Canada," Dawn
Deel, a carbon sequestration manager at NETL, said in an interview.

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Scientists say carbon capture and sequestration holds promise,
at a price. Equipment to capture the gas at power plants, transport
it, and bury it deep underground could add up to 20 percent to
consumers' power bills, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology
report said this month. It confirmed a 2005 study by scientists that
advise the United Nations.

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[MasonJar]

1. Start today; I'll pay my share, but the big plants making the money

need to ante up for a big share...the oil companies too.

[ret5hd]

2. OK, you know what we're setting up for future generations here, dont you...

how long before sombody drops a truckload of Mentos down an injection well?

[NNadir]

3. No amount of money can make this work before the fossil fuels are gone.

And when they are gone, they will have already choked us to death.

Disposal is dumping and dumping doesn't work.