'World's first' carbon storage database to go live in 2013

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System outlining potential of 600 sites off the UK coastline aimed at accelerating development of carbon capture and storage

A database of the UK's offshore carbon dioxide storage capacity that is said to be the first system of its kind anywhere in the world is set to go live in early 2013. The database will contain geological...

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