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Thursday, October 19th, 2017

World’s first “negative emission” power plant turns CO2 into stone

Author:     Rich Haridy
Source:     New Atlas
Publication Date:     18 October 2017
 Link: World’s first “negative emission” power plant turns CO2 into stone
Stephan:   Here is a report on a interesting technology that turns CO2 into stone. I can see several places where this could go wrong, starting with injecting things into the earth, witness Oklahoma. But I can also see how this could work well in certain places in the world. We will see over time. I find it also important because it shows an increasing awareness of the CO2 problem.

This geothermal power plant in Iceland has become the world’s first negative emission power plant.
Credit: Arni Saeberg

After opening the world’s first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plantdesigned to pull CO2 out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world’s first “negative emission” power plant.

  • Basalt core containing carbonates - the white mineral is the CO2
  • The unit designed to capture CO2 from the air
  • The team after installing the DAC system on site in Iceland

For several years an international team of scientists has been working on a novel way to turn captured CO2 into solid minerals. The project is dubbed CarbFix and involves bounding the CO2 to water and then pumping it 700 meters […]

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