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Norway's moon shot
Who says burying carbon dioxide in caverns beneath the sea will never work? Norway's been doing it for a decade
Andrew Leonard [2008-03-05]

  • Buy *burying* carbon dioxide?

    My comment strays a bit from your point, but burying C02 is a little like burying plutonium in Yucca Mountain --- someone's just prolonging the inevitable for future generations to deal with (assuming those future generations actually come to fruition).

    Surface dwelling plants naturally absorb C02, but unless there are organism on the ocean floor or below that I'm not aware of, those C02 deposits will reach a maximum storage/saturation level at some point... and drilling more holes is not a sustainable solution.

    Maybe I'm wrong, but Norway's effort seems short-sighted, even if they're development plan for this project already projects decades or centuries into the future.

    -- L*F*A
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    Wednesday, March 5, 2008 01:07 PM
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