Speeding Up Earth’s Natural CO2 Mineralization Cycle Can Recover All of the CO2 from Fossil Fuels
We’ve got all these great solutions capturing carbon, typically from air or industrial emitters. But capture is only half of the problem. What do we do with all that captured carbon?
The duration of carbon storage is critical to assessing the life cycle of CO2-derived products and storage capabilities. Synthetic fuels derived from captured CO2 are typically recombusted within one year of being captured. Therefore, synthetic fuels are not a viable long-term storage solution. Rather, geologic carbon storage is a widely accepted long-term solution which has a global technical potential of at least 2,000 Gt of CO2, IPCC 2018. Here, carbon is injected into underground reservoirs, mostly for enhanced oil recovery for oil and gas.
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