1 million tons of pressurised CO2 stored beneath Decatur, Illinois

WattsUpWithThat.com ^ | 14JAN2015 | Eric Worrall

[WayneS]

Carbonated Illini.

[WayneS]

Just look in the mirror.

[BitWielder1]

This will blow up on them eventually.
Instead they should pipe it into forests, jungles and greenhouses.
Vegetation of any kind will happily gobble it up and create valuable biomass, a.k.a. building materials and food.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Yeah, they should have put it in Carbondale, Illinois!

[Jack Hydrazine]

I sense a joke in there somewhere!

[Hieronymus]

It’s like reading that people have drowned and reacting by building dams to keep water from reaching you down stream. It works well, for a while.

[facedown]

The ancient Egyptians were similarly crazy and squandered resources on building pyramids for degenerate brother-sister marriage Pharaohs

Yeah, but at least they left something cool-looking to show for it. 8^)

All these guys will leave is a gigantic unseen death trap.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In the NE corner of New Mexico is the BRAVO DOME, which contains natural CO2 under pressure.

No one I know about is worried about it.

http://www.kindermorgan.com/pages/business/co2/supply/supply_bravo.aspx

http://www.noblegasgeochemistry.com/carbon-storage/#natural-analogues

[KoRn]

So terrorists would only need to drill a bunch of holes in the ground, and it would be similar to lighting up a Nuke? NICE!

[Red Badger]

CO2 = C + O2..........................Leave the Carbon, take the cannoli.............

[bolobaby]

This = OK.

Yucca Mountain? = AHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOO! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

[PhiloBedo]

....and they bitch about frakking............

[ExTxMarine]

I think this is a GREAT idea! The last thing we need is all that CO2 out in the open atmosphere, you know, causing plants to grow and crops to develop!

Is the /s necessary?

[eyeamok]

7000 ft below the city of Decatur, Illinois, population 74,710 people, is a high pressure reservoir which contains 1 million tons of CO2.

Now everyone knows who exactly to SUE for All the FREEZING TEMPERATURES, the plan worked too well and has catapulted us right into the next Ice Age.

File that Lawsuit and watch them backpedal

[Vigilanteman]

A small price to pay to feed the libtard feel-good fantasy of global warming . . . < / sarcasm >

[Mr. K]

why didn’t they just use it in bottles of coke and pepsi?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I wonder how well-publicized this is in Decatur.

[camle]

what can possibly go wrong?

[Vigilanteman]

I’m guessing it is not publicized at all. After all, Romney carried the county by a 52% to 46% margin over ObaMao in 2012, so not exactly a favorite place for the Chicago mob.

[bigbob]

Why? Natural gas has been stored underground in depleted reservoirs, aquifers, etc for years with no problem, and surely CO2 isn’t quite the same as methane.