Reply #2: Statoils site estimated to be able to hold 800 yrs of CO2 produced by all Europe's fossil fuel power

[JohnWxy]

plants.


"Statoil reports that seismic surveys taken before and after injection started show that the injected gas has not leaked out of the aquifer. The project has put 1 million tons of carbon dioxide into the aquifer every year, and estimates are that the formation, which is 250 meters thick, can hold 600 billion tons. SACS (the Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage program), a coalition started to monitor the injected carbon dioxide, estimates that the aquifer can store as much carbon dioxide as would be produced over 800 years from all of Europe’s fossil fuel power plants. "

That's just one formation. The 800 years would give us time to probably come up with other ideas. As long as people didn't sit around chanting "pump in, and pumped in and pumped in...." ad infinitum. LOL



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
For well-selected, designed and managed geological storage sites, IPCC estimates that CO2 could be trapped for millions of years, and the sites are likely to retain over 99% of the injected CO2 over 1,000 years.