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Published online 1 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.226
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Tracing carbon dioxide's fate underground
Greenhouse gas dissolves in water rather than becoming locked into minerals.
In a paper in this week's Nature1, UK researchers have firmed up our notions of what happens to carbon dioxide buried deep underground over millions of years. They find that in sedimentary rock, it's unlikely to become locked into solid minerals — instead, it will either dissolve in water or stay trapped in a CO2 bubble.
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Carbon sequestration is disaster at every level of implementation beginning with its financing - the Carbon Tax on Everything and carbon credit arbitrage. Disarticulate the First World into Sidoarjo, East Java. An advocate makes virtue of failure. The worse the cure the better the treatment - and the more that is required.