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===Earthquakes=== | ===Earthquakes=== | ||
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<q>Sequestering of carbon deep underground, through multiple impermeable boundaries, can increase earthquakes, just as with waste water storage from [[fracking]].</q> | <q>Sequestering of carbon deep underground, through multiple impermeable boundaries, can increase earthquakes, just as with waste water storage from [[fracking]].</q> <sup>[rw]</sup> | ||
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===Sinkholes=== | ===Sinkholes=== | ||
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<q>Once carbon dioxide is pumped underground in large quantities (in this case, billions of tons), it displaces natural groundwater pools, causing groundwater to seep elsewhere underground, which greatly increases the risk of sink-holes and water seepage on the surface above.</q> | <q>Once carbon dioxide is pumped underground in large quantities (in this case, billions of tons), it displaces natural groundwater pools, causing groundwater to seep elsewhere underground, which greatly increases the risk of sink-holes and water seepage on the surface above.</q> <sup>[rw]</sup> | ||
===Rejection=== | ===Rejection=== | ||
<q>Carbon dioxide is naturally buoyant, and will thus spread around its initial injection point, and seep back out of the earth unless it is injected through one or more impermeable boundaries.</q> | <q>Carbon dioxide is naturally buoyant, and will thus spread around its initial injection point, and seep back out of the earth unless it is injected through one or more impermeable boundaries.</q> <sup>[rw]</sup> | ||
===Storage capacity=== | ===Storage capacity=== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
This page contains some content copied from RationalWiki's [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clean_coal page on "clean coal"], which has some good info debunking carbon capture. | This page contains some content copied from RationalWiki's [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clean_coal page on "clean coal"], which has some good info debunking carbon capture. [{{light|Footnote:}} <sup>[rw]</sup>] | ||
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