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Germany to start storing carbon dioxide underground - Naruto Forums
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Mon Jun 30, 11:17 AM ET
Germany is due to inaugurate Europe's first underground carbon dioxide storage site on Monday, the country's national geoscience institute said.
The site at Ketzin, outside Berlin, is part of a European project dubbed CO2SINK which aims to test whether capturing and storing carbon dioxide in subterranean rock is a viable way of fighting global warming, the GFZ centre in Potsdam said.
It will pump up 60,000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas into porous, salt water-filled rock at depths of more than 600 metres (656 yards) over the next two years, the centre said.
The first injection of gas below the surface was due to take place later on Monday.
Reinhard Huettl, the science director of the institute, said storing carbon dioxide underground could slow down global warming and thereby buy scientists extra time to develop alternative energy sources.
"The storage of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is an option to win time in the development and introduction of carbon dioxide-reduced energy technology," he said.
Huettl said the site will become a "unique worldwide laboratory" to study the success of the world's main global warming gas.
Some environmental groups have expressed reservations about capturing carbon emissions produced by industry to store it below ground, with Greenpeace saying it posed the risk of highly toxic leaks.
Source: Yahoo News
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I'm sorry, how does this fight global warming?
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Quote: : I'm sorry, how does this fight global warming?
Not at all, but that's how the government thinks: No see CO2, then there is no CO2.
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I thought the Germans were smart.
I mean, look at their German engineering.
But this is their government....
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As long as the gullible voters think it helps, the politicians did their job right.
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Assuming the rocks actually contain the gas, this would help to slow down global warming.
It takes some of the greenhouse gases out of the air and puts it in a place where the light and heat from the sun don't reach-underground.
The rays from the sun have to bounce off the ground, go back into the atmosphere, hit the greenhouse gases, and bounce back toward Earth in order for them to heat the planet up anymore than they normally would.
If there are less greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to bounce the rays back toward Earth because they were moved to a place where the rays don't reach, the planet won't get heated up as much by being exposed to the same amount of rays thus slowing down global warming.
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Sounds like hot air.
Quote: : Not at all, but that's how the government thinks: No see CO2, then there is no CO2.
Um... no amount of CO2 can be seen, since it is a gas.
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It's a saying, Believe It.
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Quote: : I'm sorry, how does this fight global warming?
I am happy our government isn't as ignorant as these people.
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Salt water filled rocks are capable of containing gas because??
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Quote: : Salt water filled rocks are capable of containing gas because??
Not sure...dissolve the gas in the water, perhaps?
Porosity?
Obviously it'll need some sort of cap rock, and a suitable trap.
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