Chasing a Wild Goose Egg: Understanding Computer Plume Modeling for Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Ruptures (Part 1 of 4)
Author: Paul Blackburn, Bold Alliance
Sept. 23, 2024

Introduction

This is the first of a four-part blog series about carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline ruptures and the computer models that can help determine the size of the danger zone following a rupture.  Here’s how the series breaks out:

• 1: Chasing a Wild Goose Egg: Understanding Computer Plume Modeling for Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Ruptures (The basics of CO2 pipeline ruptures and the need to know the danger zone following a rupture – Sept. 23, 2024)
• 2: Is Your Goose Cooked? The Potential Health Impacts of CO2 Pipeline Ruptures (Sept. 25, 2024)
• 3: A Tale of Perfect Goose Eggs: CO2 Plume Computer Modeling Options (The computer models available to predict the size of danger zones for CO2 pipeline ruptures – Sept. 30, 2024)
• 4: Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander: Who Should Have Access to Plume Modeling for CO2 Pipeline Ruptures? (Public access to CO2 pipeline rupture computer modeling and industry and government efforts to keep it secret – Nov. 2, 2024)

The goal of this series is to help current and potential future neighbors of CO2 pipelines access technology that can help them understand whether or not they are at risk.  Read more: Part 1

Find Part 2 here.