CO2 sequestration may trigger earthquakes, says ge

[Wilmot McCutchen]

The underground injection of CO2 is currently the aim of global warming policy-makers. But in our panicked desperation, let's not make things even worse by cracking the bedrock and salting the groundwater. “We have faults that are accumulating stress over thousands to hundreds of thousands of years, even in Iowa,” says Stanford University geophysicist Mark Zoback. “So when you inject water or gas or any fluid it can set some of them off. ... Stanford’s Zoback says the standard calculations that have convinced some that immense volumes of CO₂ can be buried safely in the pore space of deep formations reflect “science that could be done by a fourth grader. They are leaving out one important fact,” he says. “Those pores are already filled with saline water. Where are you going to put that?”” https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pumping-carbon-dioxide-deep-underground-may-trigger-earthquakes

 

[Endy0816]

We kind of already do this though admittedly using hydraulic fracturing instead. Geothermal sites and in natural gas drilling operations.

 

Article gives mixed data on the subject if you read to the end.

[Wolfhnd]

You cannot have your cake and eat it. We do not have the economic resources to switch to "clean" energy in the short run, the crime is in not using foresight at all.

 

The most annoying aspect of Darwinian economic policies is that the people proposing them don't understand Darwin, that life is more about cooperation than competition, and that evolution equals extinction. Systems that have no foresight, are overly competitive, and fail to understand nature are doomed. The problem with liberal policies is that they demand perfection now. No one likes cost benefit analysis because it interferes with their agenda.