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Scientists Develop a way to Trace and Track CO2 Underground
Image Source: Stock.Xchng. By: Z_reinhart.
Why underground? Well, consider that a lot of emissions come from power plants—coal plants and the like—so, scientists started investigating underground caverns, fissures and coal beds to find places where those emissions can be stored; thus reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
So, how do they find and track the carbon? They used colorless, non-toxic liquids called perfluorocarbon tracers. These tracers were used to fingerprint CO2 that was injected into a coal seam in New Mexico. By tracking the tracers, they were able to follow the movement of the CO2.
You can find out more about it all here.
By Heidi Marshall
Tags: atmosphere, carbon dioxide, co2, coal beds, coal seam, global warming, greenhouse gases, New Mexico, perfluorocarbon, tracing, tracking, underground
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