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Genesis 18:32, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Acts 5:29
"Mammoth" Carbon Capture Facility Gets Up and Running in Iceland
"Hellisheidi, Iceland — With Mammoth's 72 industrial fans, Swiss start-up Climeworks intends to suck almost 40,000 tons of CO2 from the air annually to bury underground, vying to prove the technology has a place in the fight against global warming. Mammoth, the largest carbon dioxide capture and storage facility of its kind, launched operations this week situated on a dormant volcano in Iceland."
"Just 31 miles from an active volcano, the seemingly risky site was chosen for its proximity to the Hellisheidi geothermal energy plant necessary to power the facility's fans and heat chemical filters to extract CO2 with water vapor.
The CO2 is then separated from the steam and compressed in a hangar where huge pipes crisscross.
Finally, the gas is dissolved in water and pumped underground with a "sort of giant SodaStream," said Bergur Sigfusson, chief system development officer for Carbfix, which developed the process.
A well, drilled under a futuristic-looking dome, injects the water 2,300 feet down into the volcanic basalt that makes up 90% of Iceland's subsoil, where it reacts with the magnesium, calcium and iron in the rock to form crystals — solid reservoirs of CO2."
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Several issues . . .
What could possibly go wrong?
Injecting large quantities of stuff underground near a volcano?!!!
Especially stuff that changes the geochemical make-up of the subterranean rock . . .
Dormant doesn't mean dead
This facility only takes care of 40,000 tons of CO2, but the climate control people say 17.6 BILLION tons of CO2 . . .
Even though this is supposedly a small demonstration facility, I smell boondoggle . . . follow the money . . . always follow the money
What are the trees, plants, crops, etc. going to use with the sunlight for photosynthesis and oxygen production (and atmospheric cleansing)??? Not very tree-hugger-friendly This all by itself is problematic in light of greenhouse gas emissions (including CO2) and counter-productive to solving the alleged climate-warming problem. Seems to me, planting more plants would be simpler, cleaner, safer, and far more effective. Aaaaaaand, plants are where we get our food from, directly or indirectly. Famine??? Wonder if this will make the forest fires even worse than they already are??? Better to let God's natural cycles and correcting/replenishing balances deal with it [sigh]
Wonder if all the CO2 locked up in the basalt, which is very rigid, will have anything to do with the 100 pound rocks of hail
Wonder what new and "interesting" properties the chemically altered basalt will exhibit???
And, pollution???
Methane seems to be a bigger problem than CO2, but gets a lot less attention (possibly because more expensive and hazardous to work with, or maybe because harder to control the masses over methane than over CO2)
Recent study finds 'garbage lasagnas' forming in open landfills across US release staggering amount of air pollution: 'Decades of trash that's sitting under the landfill'
Researchers discovered that over half had sizable methane plumes, which sometimes lasted for months or years.
Recent study finds 'garbage lasagnas' forming in open landfills across US release staggering amount of air pollution: 'Decades of trash that’s sitting under the landfill'
Landfills are emitting far more methane than previously thought, but this research could help mitigate those emissions.
www.thecooldown.com
Except I think it will become economically infeasible to re-extract it except for localities co-located with the facilities that captured and trapped the carbon in the first place. Or perhaps impossible due to volcanic eruption and lava pave-over caused by these activities.
