Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK)

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Natgas can be cleaner than wind, solar, or nuclear!

Imagine... natgas cleaner than wind, solar, and nuclear in 10 to 15 years. In other words, natgas might become the cleanest cheapest energy earth will ever produce.

Here's how it works: Build electric power plants near coastal area with nearby basaltic rock formations. Carbon dioxide is highly soluble in water and has the potential to be involved in chemical reactions that form common minerals like calcite. Although recognized as a possible mechanism for sequestering carbon dioxide it has been generally understood that the rates of mineralisation would be very slow. A new study by a multidisciplinary research group working in Iceland injected CO2 and water together into old basaltic lava flows and sediments (400 to 800m depth). They discovered that about 95% of the injected CO2 had reacted over a two-year period with Ca (calcium), Fe (iron) and Mg (magnesium) dissolved from the basalts to form stable carbonate minerals. The overall cost of this process is significantly less than standard CCS methods because it avoids the physical separation of captured CO2.

In other words, the exhaust from gas turbines powering electric generators is pumped into the basaltic rocks and the CO2 turns to stone.

There are even other ways to inject the CO2 into the ground to force oil deposit to come to the surface.

In other words, we could use the exhaust produced by burning natgas, oil, or coal to produce electric power clearer and more attractive that a field of solar panels or wind mills!

All our cars, buses, trucks, and trains would be hooked to an electrical third rail. Airplanes would be replaced by electric trains running on high-speed rails or in tunnels under the sea.

http://oilpro.com/post/25243/geological-trappings-carbon-capture-and-storage?utm_source=DailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_term=2016-06-22&utm_content=Article_12_txt