California's Carbon Deadline Is Approaching. Meeting It Will Take Hundreds of Miles of Pipelines. Plans call for millions of tons of CO₂ to be piped to the Central Valley & Sacramento delta for burial

@silence7@slrpnk.net · 9 months ago

California's Carbon Deadline Is Approaching. Meeting It Will Take Hundreds of Miles of Pipelines. Plans call for millions of tons of CO₂ to be piped to the Central Valley & Sacramento delta for burial

@gibmiser@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Something tells me this isn’t going to happen

quicklime · 9 months ago

I guess it’s another pipe dream

@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · edit-2 9 months ago

Why is the Delta considered the best sequestration site in the state? I thought you wanted to pump into certain types of bedrock to mineralize the CO2 to prevent it from leaking. The valley has basically no bedrock under it for thousands of feet, so this plan makes little sense to me. What keeps it from leaking back out?

@silence7@slrpnk.net · 9 months ago

This article has something of an overview

@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 9 months ago

Thanks but I’m not going to take a company trying to get rich off of this technology at their word. The claim that it will stay down there when there’s no solid barrier seems dubious, unless there’s some unique chemical process at play here.