THE TROUBLE WITH CCS IS LEAKS

Carbon sequestration too leaky to stop global warming
Casey Johnston, July 6, 2010 (ars technical)

The author of this post contacted NewEnergyNews and requested his material be removed. The link has also been removed.

The gist of the brief post is that Long-term effectiveness and consequences of carbon dioxide sequestration, by Dr. Gary Shaffer, reports that sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions is problematic.

click to enlarge

Dr. Gary Shaffer's study reportedly modeled sequestration underground and in the ocean and combinations of the two.

The challenge with such storage, Shaffer reportedly found, is that it would have to be permanent and leakage of even 1% every thousand years could be a challenge to the atmosphere and aggravate climate change.

click to enlarge

Dr. Shaffer reportedly noted in his piece that it would be possible to sequester emissions if the storage sites are regularly monitored. This would obviously add to the cost of the technology.