A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere ( insideclimatenews.org )

queermunist , 9 months ago

Don't worry, carbon will never be stored at a meaningful scale 🙄

silence7 OP Mod , 9 months ago

It's already being stored at a big enough scale to be dangerous, because Occidental pumps CO2 into oil deposits to squeeze more oil out.

queermunist , 9 months ago

There's no way there's enough CO2 being pumped into oil wells to matter nearly as much as burning the oil itself.

silence7 OP Mod , 9 months ago

I agree, but having that CO2 escape is still a big deal; it could suffocate people locally by displacing all the oxygen, and it's just like any other CO2 once it mixes into the atmosphere.

queermunist , 9 months ago

Oh definitely - they're trying to build CO2 pipelines here in Iowa and if one of those ruptured it would basically just be a mass death event.

It's such a stupid idea. I don't think it's ever going to become something that happens on a truly large scale, but people will get hurt.