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This morning’s news 28 April 2010: look up the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 70 (2010) 123 – 130, Elsevier, Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in a Closed Underground Volume, authors Christine Ehlig-Economides and Michael J. Economides of Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University and Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston. The highlight: “Our calculations suggest that the volume of liquid or supercritical CO2 to be disposed cannot exceed more than about 1% of (geologic) pore space. This will require from 5 to 20 times more underground reservoir volume than has been envisioned…it renders geologic sequestration of CO2 a profoundly non-feasible option for the management of CO2 emissions”.

Questions arising:
1. How much money has been spent on CCS to date, and no one has done their homework?
2. Where does that leave CCS and various government plans to encourage its adoption? Example: EU with a long term plan for €12 billion into CCS.
3. What does this mean for the primary alternative, carbon capture and recycling (CCR)?
4. What does this mean for Mantra Energy’s ERC technology, probably the leading CCR technology?