Putting Carbon Dioxide Back in the Ground
- csrice8
- May 21, 2017
- 1 min read
Every day, power plants and industries across the globe emit nearly 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — an effect that has pushed our climate into a dangerous zone, causing the Arctic to melt at an alarming rate, sea levels to rise, and weather patterns to shift across the world. But change is brewing and our best shot at reducing those emissions might be right under our feet. Projects are now being developed that capture the harmful gas before it's released into the atmosphere and bury it deep in the Earth.
The basics of the technology, called carbon capture and storage (CCS) are simple: The toxic gas is pulled out of large emission sources through various chemical techniques. Once the carbon dioxide has been trapped, it's liquefied, transported through a pipeline and deposited underground — often in natural reservoirs that can hold the gas for millions to billions of years.
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