Limiting Atmospheric CO_2

摘要

Worldwide emissions of CO_2 continue to increase, and prudence dictates that technologies be developed to help limit this trend. One of several ways to attenuate the increase of CO_2 in the atmosphere is to sequester it. The technology for doing so exists. The injection of CO_2 into oil fields is having economically beneficial effects while at the same time sequestering CO_2. In addition, under the surface of the earth in the United States and elsewhere, many structures that once were filled with fossil fuels have been exploited, leaving space that might be used to store CO_2. In the United States, some of the structures from which natural gas has been extracted are being used to safely store high-pressure gas produced elsewhere.