Pore-Level Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Infiltrating the Ocean Floor
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Ocean sequestration of carbon dioxide is considered to be a potentially important method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (US DOE, 1999). Oceans are currently the largest atmospheric carbon dioxide sink; and certainly, enough storage capacity exists in the oceans to hold all of the CO2 that we can emit for many years. Additionally, technologies exist that allow us to pump liquid CO2 into the oceans at depths between one and two kilometers for extended periods of time and five times that deep for shorter durations.
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