{"id":194,"date":"2012-03-16T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/?p=194"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T21:14:30","slug":"fracking-with-char","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/2012\/03\/16\/fracking-with-char\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking With Char"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biochar stores carbon in the soil for long periods of time\u2026 why am I repeating this point?\u00a0 Because biochar isn\u2019t the only technology that stores carbon in the ground.\u00a0 When most researchers, politicians, and people from industry talk about carbon capture and storage, more often than not they are talking about deep geological storage.\u00a0 Think of huge power plants pumping the carbon dioxide they would emit into the atmosphere into deep geological formations instead.\u00a0 This form of storage hasn\u2019t taken off and a new study<\/a> by researchers at Princeton University has indicated that this may not be a viable option in the US.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t talk about the high costs associated with storing carbon in this manner, but instead look at how fracking <\/a>would compete with deep geological storage of carbon.\u00a0 For either of these processes, you can\u2019t just drill or store carbon anywhere. \u00a0And it just so happens that the places where you would drill for oil and gas are also the places where you would store carbon.\u00a0 In fact, 80% of the carbon storage space in the US would be ideal areas for fracking, and the process of fracking pretty much eliminates the possibility of storing carbon in these areas.\u00a0 Since fracking has been pushed to the front of the pack on domestic energy production, it is a safe bet that oil and gas exploration would take preference over deep geological storage of carbon. There is an obvious tradeoff in this situation between energy production and environmental responsibility, but the good news is that this tradeoff doesn\u2019t have to be quite so extreme. Other solutions exist that can couple fracking with carbon storage.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, the use of biochar at fracking sites would store some of the carbon that would have otherwise been placed in deep geological features. Additionally, this practice would also assist in remediating harmful compounds at these sites, one of the most serious and repeated complaints against the current fracking process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biochar stores carbon in the soil for long periods of time\u2026 why am I repeating this point?\u00a0 Because biochar isn\u2019t the only technology that stores carbon in the ground.\u00a0 When most researchers, politicians, and people from industry talk about carbon … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biochar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}