Carbon Sequestration at St. Lawrence University

Forests play an important role in the carbon cycle. Every year, forests store more than 0 × 10 15 metric tons of carbon in biomass, debris, and soil (Dixon et al.). The storage of this carbon dioxide is very important to our planet, and it enables human beings to prosper. Climate change is happening, but if our forests store human carbon dioxide, it will not accelerate as carbon sinks. Carbon sequestration is defined as "to prevent accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of the earth by planting trees to absorb carbon dioxide or pumping carbon dioxide to underground reservoirs" ( Collins English Dictionary).

About 40 years old Friedman became one of the world's storage experts. Method and place to safely store carbon dioxide in the basement. I got geological training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California, and initially worked at Exxon Mobil. But by the beginning of the 21st century, he was fascinated by the emerging underground carbon dioxide storage science. "At that time, it was clear that almost all the very wonderful work was done at national laboratories," he told me. In 2004, he and his family moved from Maryland to California where he joined Lawrence Livermore. He is currently responsible for the carbon management program and is also the technical director of the government - university - corporate consortium and won the competition from the Ministry of Energy this summer to support the development of China 's carbon sequestration project It was.

As part of the region's carbon sequestration partnership program, this department provided $ 66.9 million for the US Department of Energy's seventh large-scale carbon sequestration project for the carbon sequestration partner in the Big Sky region. This partnership led by Montana State University Bozeman demonstrates that the stratum can store safely, permanently and economically more than 2 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) by conducting a large-scale test at the nugget sandstone stratum To do. The division announced the second carbon sequestration atlas in the United States and Canada. It records the possibility of more than 350 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage in oil and gas reservoirs, coal seams and salt layers. A preliminary estimate shows that in these strata, the United States and Canada can provide more than 1100 years of CO2 storage.