The technology mimics, in accelerated format, a natural process that can take thousands of years, injecting CO2 into porous basalt rock where it mineralises, capturing it forever.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is promoting various carbon capture and storage methods in a bid to limit the rise in average temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The plant, located on the Hengill volcano in southwestern Iceland, sits on a layer of basalt rock formed from cooled lava, and has access to virtually unlimited amounts of water.
"So basically we are just making soda water out of the CO2," says project director Edda Sif Aradottir. By comparison, Iceland's volcanoes spew out between one and two million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
And permanently getting rid of a lot of fresh water!!!
CO2 is not pollution
Rocks or dry ice? Hmm...
And what will they do with all the rocks?
That's cleaner?
Nature does that too
At least they are doing something about carbon dioxide, unlike the liberal_party in Canada where they think that taxing with a carbontax on Canadians on C02 emissions are going to have the magically disappear.
Idiots. Don't they know they could have just implemented a carbon tax?