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Trapping emissions underground could go a long way toward mitigating the climate crisis. There’s easily enough space in the word’s nearshore continental margins to meet the IPCC’s goal of storing 6 to 7 gigatons of carbon dioxide a year by 2050. It could be achieved by installing 10,000 to 14,000 injection wells worldwide in the next 30 years, storing it more than a mile underground within tiny spaces in the rock. That would require around 12,000 wells globally which is considered entirely possible.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191209182006.htm