And you thought nuke waste was a problem/money-maker? :-)

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

CO2 CAPTURE FOCUS OF NEW RESEARCH CENTERS

The capture and long term storage of carbon dioxide to combat global
climate
change will be studied at two new centers established by the U.S.
Department
of Energy (DOE). Carbon dioxide storage on land and in the oceans is one

potential component of future international efforts to reduce the
atmospheric
carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. "The Energy
Department
centers will help coordinate research across an enormous breadth of
disciplines
from both government and academia," said Dr. Martha Krebs, director of
the
department's Office of Science. "Breakthroughs from these centers could
lead to
new, environmentally acceptable ways to help address this global
problem." One
way to increase carbon storage is through better land management. By
making
modest changes in farming and forestry practices, plants and soils may
be used
more efficiently to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Research
at the
DOE Center for Research on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial

Ecosystems will help find ways to use plants, microbes, or soil
management to
cause more carbon to be stored below ground without major sacrifices in
crop
yields. The Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration will look
at
increasing the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean through
direct
injection of carbon dioxide into the deep ocean or through fertilization
of marine
organisms, such as plankton, living in the surface ocean. More
information on
the DOE’s carbon storage research is online at:
http://www.fe.doe.gov/sequestration/index.html


Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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