This Country Will Be Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Snow

With climate change headlines seemingly growing direr each year, with statements such as, “Climate Change could destroy Statue of Liberty, Venice, and many other parts of the world’s heritage,” “UN report warns and Climate change: flooding caused by global warming to put one billion people at risk by 2060, charity warns,” innovative scientists remain staunch in finding ways to suppress the damage.

At Reykjavik Energy’s Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, a short-term project with potentially long-term outcomes in tackling climate change is being researched. The exclusive project is called CarbFix. The initial action of the project was pumping a carbon dioxide and water mixture underground into deep layers of basalt rock at Hellisheidi geothermal power plant. The idea is that the acidic mixture will dissolve the calcium magnesium and limestone in the rocks, which is what makes them trap gas naturally. In this way, the carbon dioxide is converted into a stone.

The experimental process

The researchers were surprised to find that after two years, almost all of the gas was converted, going against the initial suggestion that the capturing and storage of carbon would take thousands of years. Basically, the experiment accelerates an already naturally occurring process happening deep in the earth’s layers.

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