SocraticGadfly: Could carbon sequestration cause earthquakes?

April 14, 2009

Could carbon sequestration cause earthquakes?

Even before I saw the last graf of a NYT story about human-induced changes to planetary geology, such as the building of dams, and increased seismic activity, I started thinking “Hmm” about whether deep-well carbon-dioxide sequestration could do the same thing.

And?

Well, read the last graf of the story for yourself. Let me just say that my analytical ability hasn’t faded away.

And, if my analytical ability is spot on, it’s one more argument to beat the tocsin of conservation first, alt-energy second (the earthquakes in Basel were caused by a geothermal plant) and old fossil fuels third.

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