They're called trees, Greta.
Posted on 09/09/2021 8:17:36 AM PDT by lowbridge
The world's largest plant that sucks carbon dioxide directly from the air and deposits it underground is due to start operating on Wednesday, the company behind the nascent green technology said.
Swiss start-up Climeworks AG, which specialises in capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air, has partnered with Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix to develop a plant that sucks out up to 4,000 tons of CO2 per year.
That's the equivalent of the annual emissions from about 790 cars. Last year, global CO2-emissions totalled 31.5 billion tonnes, according to the International Energy Agency.
Direct air capture is one of the few technologies extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and is viewed by scientists as vital to limit global warming, blamed for causing more heatwaves, wildfires, floods and rising sea levels.
The Orca plant, a reference to the Icelandic word for energy, consists of eight large containers similar in looks to those used in the shipping industry, which employ high-tech filters and fans to extract carbon dioxide.
The isolated carbon is then mixed with water and pumped deep underground, where it slowly turns into rock. Both technologies are powered by renewable energy sourced from a nearby geothermal power plant.
Direct air capture is still a fledgling and costly technology, but developers hope to drive down prices by scaling up as more companies and consumers look to reduce their carbon footprint.
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What a colossal waste of money.
Good Lord these people are pants-on-head stupid.
They are about to discover what unintended consequences actually are
They're called trees, Greta.
Plenty of carbon and other toxics spewing into the air from Iceland these days, not all of it comes from the deeps of the Earth but from the dark heart of Man.
Loony goofballs, soft in the head. They’re doomed, I tell ya. Doomed.
Evil people trying to starve plants!
🌿 Plants Make Life On Earth Possible 🌳
I hope they get it down to less than.0005% of the atmosphere.
How many trees have they killed with this Mad Hatter scheme?!?
The exact thought that any reasonable person would have. It is a huge scam.
“partnered with Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix to develop a plant that sucks out up to 4,000 tons of CO2 per year.”
How many billions of tons of CO2 are emitted by volcanoes, the oceans, and other natural sources every year?
Iceland, one of the most volcanic nations on earth routinely spews Gia’s breath into the atmosphere on a continental scale.
Their little carbon extraction plant might was well be a sump pump in the ocean.
I would be asking just how deep they have to pump this stuff, and wouldn’t it just eventually find a fissure to some local volcano to ‘burp’?
What is it...around 110 to 120 volcanoes in Iceland?
2.996×10 to the 12th tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere... 4000 tons removed a year by this factory...
not gonna do anything... except waste money.
These people are deranged. Deranged. It is a little frightening.
Wouldn’t it be better to pump it into their huge greenhouses? Make some good use of the stuff.
Climeworks AG: malicious criminals working hard to eliminate all vegetation and the oxygen they produce.
If it turns into oil, down there, will they sing a different tune?
What could possibly go wrong?
IIRC, there are something like 750 Gigatons of CO2. The Leftists, using pretzel logic, have concluded that it is the 30 Gigatons caused by man that are pushing us over the edge.
They really do have this elaborate explanation ready to back up that.
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