Bury carbon dioxide gas to minimize environmental pollution

According to European researchers, carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) emissions from industrial factories that pollute the environment can be buried in the ground instead of being released into space. And this change may contribute to reducing the climate of the Earth getting warmer.

In February, a large-scale trial of burying CO2 in the ground was carried out by researchers at Ketzin, a small town 40 km from Berlin.

Accordingly, it is drilled to a depth of 800 m in the ground, where groundwater is contaminated and inaccessible to usable groundwater. As expected, from this summer to the next two years, about 60,000 tons of raw CO ₂ will be buried here.

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The project, worth 35 million euros, is co-financed by the EU, Germany, and France and many European universities and companies. According to Professor Günter Borm of Potsdam Earth Research Center (GFZ), the project aims to test how to store carbon dioxide in the ground to reduce their release into space, leading to a greenhouse effect. In the case of success, this method will be applied to these concentrated industrial emission areas such as metallurgical plants, cement plants or thermal power centers.

The CO ₂ burying technique is also a topic of testing in many parts of the world, under various conditions such as deep-sea burying, areas off Norway or Australia, at the bottom of a Texas oil field .

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