Measuring changes in rock
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 12:40
in Earth & Climate
The capture and storage of carbon dioxide in deep geologic formations, a strategy for minimising the impacts of greenhouse gases on global warming, may currently be technologically feasible. But one key question that must be answered is the ability of subsurface materials to maintain their integrity in the presence of supercritical carbon dioxide - a fluid state in which the gas is condensed at high temperature and pressure into a liquid...