Forgot to ask. “to be fossilised, locking it safely and permanently underground.”
What does fossilised mean? Is the underground storage facility earthquake proof? I mean what happens if a small tremor cracks open the storage vault and all that CO2 escapes in a short time?
In reality, it would just release a portion of the co2, which will not. Be a problem, as the earth has had over 1000 parts per million co2 in the past and life survived just fine. The left scream about our current 430 ppm co2 level, as though we will all erupt into flames and life will die out- nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is, weather drives co2 levels in atmosphere, co2 does not warm the globe. Ice core samples prove this point. The left screaming about “the tipping point” and “only 7 years left” are hysterical nutcase that belong in therapy, not out loose in public
Iceland is made of basalt rock that mafic when you add an acid gas to it like CO2 you get a chemical reaction with the calcium silicates forming calcium carbonate and silicon oxide. Also known as limestone and quartz. This is exactly the normal natural weathering process of basaltic rocks exposed to rain and atmospheric CO2 just sped up by a million times or so due to concentration and pressure of the CO2 gas. Calcium carbonate and silicon oxide are stable over geological time so it’s locked away for millions if not billions of years.