Enviro and energy writers already are getting familiar with the initials CCS, for carbon capture and storage (or sequestration). Most green-savvy readers probably will, too, as efforts to bury carbon dioxide eventually get into high gear.
The Dispatch‘s Kevin Mayhood on Tuesday ran a long look at one local project, the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, and its early testing. The gov’t and private combine has already joined a pre-existing Ohio Stratigraphic Borehole project to inspect the depths of one huge bed of porous limestone, it says here, and has injected saline water to test its response. Next year, it’ll try sending some actual CO2 into another test site, in Michigan. Mayhood explains the rationale in plain English: “pumping the carbon dioxide underground is much better than releasing it into the air.”
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