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Friday, March 23, 2012

Study finds froom to store CO2 underground

Study finds room to store CO2 underground

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 23, 2012
A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's coal-fired powerplants. Though questions remain about the economics of systems to capture and store such gases, this study addresses a major issue that has overshadowed such proposals.

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