It is about depositing carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the main causes of the greenhouse effect within the earth.
The goal is to keep this gas isolated from the atmosphere for centuries to reduce emissions. In past months, the
National Laboratory of Energy Technology, in the USA, an agency specialized in fossil energies, published a new atlas of the places -in this country and Canada- where it is possible to deposit huge amounts of tons of CO2, product of industrial pollution.
On the website of this institution (www.netl.doe.gov), a team of scientists details some viable technologies to capture CO2 and bury it.
One of them, although not yet used on a large scale, is to gather this gas when it arises from the combustion of fossil fuels – oil, coal and natural gas – and then pump it underground, within terrestrial or marine formations. (Source: El Comercio).
