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If the slightest earthquake was going to rupture the natural gas field, it wouldn’t be around for people to tap. Again, this isn’t the kind of thing where you
by Retric 2y ago
If the slightest earthquake was going to rupture the natural gas field, it wouldn’t be around for people to tap.
Again, this isn’t the kind of thing where you slap a metal end cap on a long tube and call it a day. It’s seriously disingenuous to assume people are going to be as stupid as you are implying.
Actually getting a meaningfully large stream of CO2 is by far a more difficult problem than storing it across geologic timescales.
- OutOfHere 2y agoIt is not disingenuous to say that fossil fuel companies cannot be trusted, and they have continuously misled the public. Even if they were to properly bury carbon dioxide, combined with crooked politicians and lobbyists, it'll just give the companies a free pass to keep burning fossil fuels. In this way, they'll screw the people from both sides. Also, there is a limit to the volume that can be held by deep geologic reservoirs.
- Retric 2y agoFossil fuel companies don’t need to burry CO2. There’s no carbon taxes or really any incentives for them to care. It’s really 3rd parties like Climeworks who are mostly likely to try and make use of this technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climeworks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climeworks And without massive government subsidies it’s going to operate at such a tiny scale as to be irrelevant.