That was wrong - 167,000 trees. About 833 acres. The state of Georgia has 24.2 Million acres of forest to put in comparison to what this plant will achieve.
But I’m pretty sure the goal of this plant is not to reduce carbon. It is to make money from liberal investors and tax incentives.
It is to make money from liberal investors and tax incentives.
While consuming, I know no what, but it’s what machines do.
If it’s attached to an electric grid, by 2030 there isn’t supposed to be one so then what?
...and as so many here have postulated, why build a machine to do what forests do for free, unless as you state it is to make money.
They mention that it is run off geothermal energy. In Iceland those plants are run using surface water pumped down near the hot magma which then turns to steam and generates turbines.
All of the photos I saw of the plants have towering white plumes of water vapor going up into the atmosphere. Water vapor is the main source of the “Greenhouse Effect”. So I wonder if they are offsetting anything at all?
Many geothermal plants have a “closed loop” system where the cooled down water is pumped back underground. But based on the photos, that doesn’t seem to be the case in Iceland.