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 Stories About: aquaculture AND carbon sequestration AND climate AND fishing AND oceans
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Carbon on the half shell
A lighthearted look at biosequestration |
Erik Hoffner |
21 Feb 2008 |
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| A semi-recent issue of High Country News carried a feature on the deep-rock carbon sequestration potential in the northwestern U.S.: it's maybe possible to inject CO2 captured from power plants into the basalt that underlies the region, producing inert calcium carbonate. If so, there's apparently enough basalt to capture centuries of the region's carbon emissions. It's safe to say the research has its doubters. And carbon sequestration in general deserves the hairy ... |
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| Topics: aquaculture, carbon sequestration, climate, fishing, oceans (all these topics) |
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