In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Messrs Kelemen and Matter suggest an alternative: pumping the gas from places where it is produced and into underground strata of peridotite.

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The underground storage areas are created by removing salt in the rock strata with equipment similar to high pressure water jets.

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