A professor from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK has received a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Award of €3m ($3.3m) to pursue frontier research into ‘smart rocks’ which could assist in the future storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground.
The security of water food and energy supplies, including enterprises ranging from the efficient extraction of oil and gas from oilfields to the potential for storing captured CO2 underground, all depend on a thorough understanding of how liquids and gases travel through porous rocks in the subsurface.
Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer and her team will grow ‘smart rocks’ that can ‘talk’ to them about what actually goes on deep underground.
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