[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

[Mr. K]

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

[camle]

what can possibly go wrong?

[Ingtar]

Just add water (vapor) to the process and you have Carbonic Acid.

[b4its2late]

Good think it ain’t helium or that mountain would start floating!

[lacrew]

Putting a pressurized and suffocating gas under a city is ok...because nothing could ever go wrong.

Installing an oil pipeline in Nebraska is not ok, because everything could go wrong.

Lib Logic.

[BudgieRamone]

Sandstone formation, eh? Several years ago Kansas Gas and electric said they were going to have to jack up gas rates. Shortly after some mobile homes in Hutchinson, Kansas went up in gas explosions from the ground. Investigators found that the gas has leaked from large underground sandstone/limestone storage pockets (results of washing out salt or somesuch) near Yagy, KS. Wonder how this might playout with CO2. I know nothing of geology, but i do know exceeding pressures in vessels not meant to handle them can be a bad thing. Oh and the raised rates? when it was discovered that there was a huge surplus of Nat gas in these resevoirs, KG&E walked back the rate hike talk and gave everyone a 5%+ discount on their bills for a couple of months IIRC.

[Boogieman]

If the goal is to take CO2 out of the atmosphere, why store it as a gas, which will eventually just leak back out, despite our best efforts?

Here’s an idea, scientists: when you give CO2 to plants, they convert it into solid matter for you, free of charge. Heck, they will even convert it into fuel for you.

[Parmy]

Plants need CO2. Why not have Decatur plant more trees and grass? Or, is that too simple?

Another question, did all that CO2 come from the breathing of the so-called scientists? Or, did it come from the other end? A Canadian study determined that the average adult human being emits roughly 3 liters of gas a day.

There are 7 billion humans on the face of the earth, perhaps a little math is needed.

Besides, CO2 is only .035% of the atmosphere we breathe.

[Flick Lives]

When this boondoggle scheme blows Decatur to bits the town will then be known as De Crater.

[ßuddaßudd]

The state should be heavily fined for having that much CO2 in its possession. It has the potential to be released upon us... If it were a company that had that much, they would pay pay pay..

[aMorePerfectUnion]

If you want to join the:

Set the Carbon Free Pinglist!!!!!!

please pm me.

[Fresh Wind]

Your tax money is hard at work, as always.

[bgill]

Extensive monitoring

Yeah, that works so well with terrorist lists and Ebola.

[hattend]

Its not just people and animals which would be affected – car engines would also stall, as the blanket of CO2 choked off the supply of oxygen.

WTF? Who gives a shi'ite? People and animals are dead or dying

What an odd addition to an article... reporter must have been getting paid per word.

[M Kehoe]

I have about 2 lbs of pressurized SO2 that I need to get rid of. Don't know if I could make it to Decatur...

5.56mm