A Global Coal Boom

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7. Yes, that paper has been critiqued

But everyone has a dog in the fight. One major critique I found came from the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage research group. No possibility of a vested interest there, eh? Another is from the US DOE, though.

People seem to be focusing their criticism on two core assumptions of the Economides' research:

1.) Effective CO2 storage requires the presence of a hydrologically isolated, completely closed geologic structure; and
2.) Any other storage system is guaranteed to leak.

At first glance those look like completely reasonable assumptions, but hey, I'm not a geologist. As a global citizen I sure don't want CCS reservoirs leaking, though.

The most charitable message is that the issue is still complex and unresolved enough to get this kind of research published. CCS is still the dog that won't hunt.