notes.husk.org/likes images.

amnhnyc:

This week, Sandya Viswanathan, a producer with the Museum’s multimedia online and exhibition program Science Bulletins is heading to the North Sea to create a documentary film about a long-running experiment in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): a process where high-pressure carbon dioxide, a byproduct of energy production that contributes to global warming, is buried underground until it incorporates into the rock.

The experiment, which began in 1996, is known as the Sleipner Project and operated by the energy company Statoil. So far, the Sleipner Project has injected 14 million tons of carbon dioxide into a well-studied reservoir of porous sandstone approximately 1,000 meters below the seabed. Using various methods to monitor the injection and concomitant underground spreading of the carbon dioxide, scientists are learning how this new technology could be used on a greater scale.

We’ll be sharing photos and dispatches from the trip over the next 7 days. See photos from Sandya’s visit to the Sleipner Project platform here.

i’ve always been fascinated with off shore rigs, don’t ask me why. i remember seeing them from the beach and just thinking… “that’s the freakin life, all at sea but on semi-solid ground, that seems perfect”. then that rig blew up, that was kind of horrible, but it didnt do anything to my desire to live on one of these bad boys