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A study has found that up to 46,000 million tonnes of industrial carbon dioxide emissions can be stored deep beneath the Scottish area of the Northern and Central North Sea.

A study has revealed that up to 46,000 million tonnes of industrial carbon dioxide (CO

) emissions, including those from power generation, can be stored beneath the Scottish area of the northern and c

.

According to the study - carried out by the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage (SCCS), the Scottish government and industry partners - storage capacity of 46,000Mt can facilitate over 100 years worth of the UK’s total industrial CO2 output.

Several sites are said to have the potential to store the next 200 years of Scotland’s total CO2 output alone.

The results from the study indicate that the UK as a whole has a storage resource capacity much larger than its planned annual volume of industrial CO2 output.

‘Opportunities for CO2 Storage around Scotland’ is said to be the most detailed and first fully integrated source-to-store research into CO2 transportation and storage ever performed in the UK.

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