Sentences with phrase «store the waste underground»

But to capture from the air the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by, say, a 1,000 - megawatt coal power plant, it would require air - sucking machinery about 30 feet in height and 18 miles in length, according to a study by the American Physical Society, as well as huge collection facilities and a network of equipment to transport and store the waste underground.

Not exact matches

(the first called «Flowback» and thereafter called «Produced waste»)(40 % of the hazardous waste remains underground going into aquifers, cracks, sideways, upwards, etc, etc, no one knows) Most of the first «Flowback» is stored in plastic - lined pits nearby.

He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.

Researchers want to convert the waste, held in underground storage tanks, into durable glass that can be stored for thousands of years.

Borehole advocates say tubes of cesium and strontium waste stored in a pool at the Hanford site in Washington could go deep underground.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

Approximately 300 million liters of highly radioactive wastes are stored in hundreds of underground tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

Some forms of carbon removal are also subject to significant debate, such as whether bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)-- which involves burning biomass like crop wastes for energy and capturing and storing the carbon emissions underground in geological formations — can be truly sustainable at a large scale given competing needs for land, among other concerns.

Liquid wastes containing radioactive caesium and strontium salts were stored in underground tanks at Hanford, which rabbits routinely burrowed into.