Green Options » geochemical trapping http://greenoptions.com/tag/geochemical-trapping Posts tagged 'geochemical trapping' Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:03:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Is Storing Carbon Dioxide Under the Ocean a Viable Strategy for Combating Global Warming? http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/08/01/is-storing-carbon-dioxide-under-the-ocean-a-viable-strategy-for-combating-global-warming/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/08/01/is-storing-carbon-dioxide-under-the-ocean-a-viable-strategy-for-combating-global-warming/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:03:41 +0000 Levi Novey http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/08/01/is-storing-carbon-dioxide-under-the-ocean-a-viable-strategy-for-combating-global-warming/ Probably you missed it, but last week there was a fascinating interview on the NPR program Talk of the Nation. The segment featured a scientist named David Goldberg, who answered questions about his research concerning the plausibility of storing massive amounts of carbon dioxide in basalt formations deep below the earth’s oceans.

Beautiful Ocean Colors off of the Coast of Spain

In a paper that is available online and will be published in an upcoming issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Goldberg and his colleagues write about how a basalt formation off of the coast of Oregon and Washington could potentially store anywhere from 120-150 years of carbon produced by the United States in its cavities (assuming current U.S. emission rates do not increase).

While initially I was extremely skeptical of this idea (because I thought that it might cause all kinds of unintended ecological havoc), by the end of the interview, I was somewhat more optimistic.

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