Injecting man-made carbon dioxide beneath ocean sediments hundreds of meters thick could be an ideal storage solution for the environmentally damaging substance, contends Daniel P. Schrag, director of Harvard's Center for the Environment, and his colleagues at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. |
Deep-sea sediments could safely store man-made carbon dioxideAn innovative solution for the man-made carbon dioxide fouling our skies could rest far beneath the surface of the ocean, say scientists at Harvard University. They've found that deep-sea sediments could provide a virtually unlimited and permanent reservoir for this gas that has been a primary driver of global climate change in recent decades, and estimate that seafloor sediments within U.S. territory are vast enough to store the nation's carbon dioxide emissions for thousands of years to come. |
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