Iceland Creates World's First Plant Able to Capture CO2 From the Air and Store It Underground

Iceland Creates World’s First Plant Able to Capture CO2 From the Air and Store It Underground

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 10/05/2024 at 17:08

Foto: Climeworks / BBC News Brasil

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Iceland Has The World’s First Commercially Viable CO2 Capture Plant. The Carbon Dioxide Capture Plant Can Absorb 4,000 Tons Annually.

Atop a formation of solidified volcanic lava thousands of years old, in the outskirts of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, one can observe what looks like a set of large air conditioning units, the size of shipping containers, arranged around a building. This is the world’s first carbon dioxide capture plant.

Plant Capable Of Capturing CO2 In Iceland Absorbs 4,000 Tons Per Year

The strange image, the finishing touch on a landscape that appears extraterrestrial, is unique not only for its appearance but also for its function: it is the first viable system in the world capable of capturing carbon dioxide (CO) from the air and storing it underground.

The carbon dioxide capture plant in Iceland, the first of its kind in operation, was developed by the Swiss company Climeworks under the premise that to truly achieve a goal of net-zero global emissions, solutions for removing CO2 from the air are necessary.

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Why Was The Carbon Dioxide Capture Plant Installed In Iceland?

For Nielsen, it is necessary to have an active role in cleaning up all the mess that companies have left since the industrial revolution began; however, the company is not here to substitute emission reductions.

The main reason this technology alone is not sufficient to address the risks of climate change is the plant’s limited capacity to capture CO2. While it sounds impressive that a single carbon dioxide capture plant can absorb 4,000 tons of CO2 per year, in 2023, global CO2 emissions reached 37.4 gigatons (37 billion tons).

The intense volcanic activity in Iceland is the primary reason Climeworks has established its plants on the island, located at the boundary of the tectonic plates of America and Eurasia.

In addition to providing clean geothermal energy, with no greenhouse gas emissions, the volcanic activity means that Iceland’s subsoil is primarily composed of basalts, porous volcanic rocks that are the perfect receptacle for atmospheric CO2.

How Does The New Plant Capable Of Capturing CO2 Work?

The gas that the carbon dioxide capture plant collects from the environment is mixed with water and sent through pipes to a kind of dome protruding from the surface and operated by another company, CarbFix. There, the mixture is injected under pressure, 2 km underground, where it reacts with the basalts, and the CO2 is calcified over millions of years.

The representative of CarbFix, Edda Aradóttir, stated in an interview that the company’s focus is for large CO2-emitting industries worldwide to contract these types of services to deposit their emissions in Iceland.

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Antônio

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12/05/2024 12:19

Plantar árvores é mais eficiente,e não custa nada…e ainda produzem oxigênio.. apresento a vcs a tecnologia das árvores, muito melhor..

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José

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12/05/2024 11:52

Colocando a sujeira debaixo do tapete kkkkkkk

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Iceland Creates World’s First Plant Able to Capture CO2 From the Air and Store It Underground

Iceland Has The World’s First Commercially Viable CO2 Capture Plant. The Carbon Dioxide Capture Plant Can Absorb 4,000 Tons Annually.

Plant Capable Of Capturing CO2 In Iceland Absorbs 4,000 Tons Per Year

Why Was The Carbon Dioxide Capture Plant Installed In Iceland?

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Iceland Creates World’s First Plant Able to Capture CO2 From the Air and Store It Underground

Iceland Has The World’s First Commercially Viable CO2 Capture Plant. The Carbon Dioxide Capture Plant Can Absorb 4,000 Tons Annually.

Plant Capable Of Capturing CO2 In Iceland Absorbs 4,000 Tons Per Year

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