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Safe long-term storage large amounts carbon dioxide in saline aquifers?

2015-05-21 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: The carbon dioxide (CO2) at the Bravo Dome gas field in New Mexico is volcanic in origin, and its emplacement began more than a million years ago, not 10 thousand years ago, as previously estimated. Averaged across the reservoir, only 20% of the CO2 has dissolved into the field's saline brine over 1.2 million years, while the rest remains as a free gas trapped by the cap-rock, suggesting that safe long-term storage in geological sites is viable. This study documents the first field evidence for...

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