Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Climate change cannot be mitigated without carbon capture

The solution can be found at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, Iceland’s largest, just outside the capital Reykjavik. Since 2014, the plant has been extracting heat from underground, capturing the carbon dioxide released in the process, mixing it with water, and injecting it back down beneath the earth, about 700 meters (2,300 ft) deep. The carbon dioxide in the water reacts with the minerals at that depth to form rock, where it stays trapped. https://qz.com/1144298/humanitys-fight-against-climate-change-is-failing-one-technology-can-change-that/
Article courtesy of Quartz by Akshat Rathi

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