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Article: Scientists Dig Deep for Answer to Global Warming.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2003
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Byline: Tom Avril
Sep. 4--NEW HAVEN, W.Va.--Concerned that carbon dioxide from power-plant smokestacks is causing global warming, scientists are studying an upside-down kind of solution:
Pumping the gas deep underground.
In the shadow of the towering Mountaineer plant here, workers last month finished drilling a hole nearly two miles deep into West Virginia sandstone.
Elsewhere, researchers are looking at storing the problematic gas in the deep ocean, in unminable coal seams, and even in prairie grass.
So in a sort of environmental symmetry, waste from burning coal, oil and other fuels would be sent back to the earth from ...