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Salt caves offer UK solution for gas storage

by Kevin Baxter on Jan 14, 2010

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A quirky story today’s edition of the UK newspaper The Times reports that a company called King Street Energy to develop ten underground salt caverns in the North West of England into an enormous gas storage facility.

The ambitious plans has won backing by the British government, who are looking for ways to increase gas storage facilities in the UK.

At present the UK only has the facilities to store 5% of annual gas consumption whereas France and Germany has enough storage for 20%.

If any of our readers can think of a better or sillier way of storing gas then please leave a comment.

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Utilize redundant coal mines and lead mines for storage of gas

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Readers' Comments

Alexander Wood (Jan 21, 2010)
Aberdeen
United Kingdom

Reserve Gas Storage-UK
Utilize redundant coal mines and lead mines for storage of gas

Abby (Jan 17, 2010)
muscat
United Kingdom

Gas storage
Go for under sea storage. safe and easy to recover

Buddy Kat (Jan 16, 2010)
Saskatoon
Canada

Salt cavern gas storage
Bad idea..they shrink, leak gas, collapse, and usually require plenty of fresh water to excavate properly. They have a life expectancy of 15 years max.

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