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The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3068" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-trap-carbon-in-stone-and-beat-climate-change/" target="_blank"><strong>The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change - Wired</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>On a barren lava plateau in Iceland, a new facility is sucking in air and stashing the carbon dioxide in rock. The next step: Build 10,000 more.</strong></p><p></p><p>It was undoubtedly the most august gathering ever convened on the uninhabited lava plains of Hellisheidi, Iceland. Some 200 guests were seated in the modernist three-story visitors’ center of a geothermal power plant—the country’s prime minister and an ex-president, journalists from New York and Paris, financiers from London and Geneva, and researchers and policy wonks from around the world. Floor-to-ceiling windows looked out on miles of moss-carpeted rock, luminously green in the September morning sunlight. Transmission towers marched away to the horizon, carrying energy from the power plant to the capital, Reykjavik, half an hour’s drive away.</p><p></p><p>The occasion: the formal unveiling of the world’s biggest machine for <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-delete-carbon-from-the-atmosphere-but-how/" target="_blank">sucking carbon out of the air</a>. The geothermally powered contraption represented a rare hopeful development in our climatically imperiled world—a way to not just limit carbon emissions but <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-time-for-an-emergency-rollout-of-carbon-eating-machines/" target="_blank">shift them into reverse</a>. Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir declared it “an important step in the race to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.” Former president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson predicted that “future historians will write of the success of this project.” Julio Friedmann, a prominent carbon expert at Columbia University, hailed it as “the birth of a new species” of planet-saving technology.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3068, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-trap-carbon-in-stone-and-beat-climate-change/'][B]The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change - Wired[/B][/URL] [B]On a barren lava plateau in Iceland, a new facility is sucking in air and stashing the carbon dioxide in rock. The next step: Build 10,000 more.[/B] It was undoubtedly the most august gathering ever convened on the uninhabited lava plains of Hellisheidi, Iceland. Some 200 guests were seated in the modernist three-story visitors’ center of a geothermal power plant—the country’s prime minister and an ex-president, journalists from New York and Paris, financiers from London and Geneva, and researchers and policy wonks from around the world. Floor-to-ceiling windows looked out on miles of moss-carpeted rock, luminously green in the September morning sunlight. Transmission towers marched away to the horizon, carrying energy from the power plant to the capital, Reykjavik, half an hour’s drive away. The occasion: the formal unveiling of the world’s biggest machine for [URL='https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-delete-carbon-from-the-atmosphere-but-how/']sucking carbon out of the air[/URL]. The geothermally powered contraption represented a rare hopeful development in our climatically imperiled world—a way to not just limit carbon emissions but [URL='https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-time-for-an-emergency-rollout-of-carbon-eating-machines/']shift them into reverse[/URL]. Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir declared it “an important step in the race to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.” Former president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson predicted that “future historians will write of the success of this project.” Julio Friedmann, a prominent carbon expert at Columbia University, hailed it as “the birth of a new species” of planet-saving technology. [/QUOTE]
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