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EC Nebraska | As far as storing gas underground goes, natural gas is formed and held underground until we drill down to get it. If you put the CO2 down into stable deep formations, it's going to stay there as well as natural gas does and did.
That doesn't mean that it can be pumped in anywhere. There are places were it will work and places where it won't. Hence the reason for the pipelines, to get it somewhere where it will work.
It should be far below the water table. If proper site selection and injection sealing is done, then it shouldn't interact with the water table. Those are two big IF's, of course. It is likely that there will be examples where it doesn't happen.
We've taken a lot of natural gas and oil out of some of these formations. There's a lot of room available. No, we're not going to significantly reduce the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere. The objective is to slow the rate of increase. They won't actually decrease current levels.
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Explain Carbon sequestration to me like I am 5
