The Big Business of Burying Carbon

The real wrench in the works: we are a fossil-fueled civilization whose technical and scientific advances, quality of life, and prosperity rest on the combustion of huge quantities of fossil carbon, and we cannot simply walk away from this critical determinant of our fortunes in a few decades, never mind years. Complete decarbonization of the globa

A third part of the work involves carbon capture and geological injection underground, into rock formations where it can be stored safely for millennia.

Every plan for shrinking production of greenhouse gases (other than directly reducing consumption) involves the construction of vast amounts of new infrastructure for generating and distributing energy, as well as manufacturing huge quantities of “sustainable” products to consume the energy thus produced—and all that new construction and manufactur

Declining emissions and rising atmospheric concentrations point to a stubborn fact about carbon dioxide: once it’s in the air, it stays there. How long, exactly, is a complicated question; for all intents and purposes, though, CO2 emissions are cumulative. The comparison that’s often made is to a bathtub. So long as the tap is running, a stoppered