Re: Storing carbon dioxide under NW seafloor proposed

On 16 Jul, 00:39, Bill Ghrist <notmyn...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If that happened, Takahashi said, any CO2 that leaked into the deep
ocean would react with cold sea water to form an icy slush that wouldn't
budge off the ocean floor.

I thought the CO2 would react with the water to create carbonic acid.
But if it just forms an icy sludge, why not just pump the CO2 into a
deep Ocean abyss?


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