Graphic ... new technology saves humanity ... carbon dioxide turns into rocks
In an amazing scientific development, a team of researchers in Iceland was able to come up with an innovation that could rid the world of the global warming crisis, resulting from the increase in the proportion of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, and the resulting high temperatures and melting of the polar ice, which threatens the disappearance of many countries Off the map of the earth after the rise in water levels in the seas and oceans.
The British newspaper "Daily Mail" said in a report that a team of researchers specializing in global warming had found a new technology that allows them to convert carbon dioxide, which is the most dangerous greenhouse gas in the world, into solid stones or rocks.
Greenhouse gases are found in the Earth's atmosphere, and they are called this name because they absorb the rays that the Earth misses and prevent their leakage into space in a way that increases global warming and increases the Earth's temperature.
According to the newspaper, the researchers have relied on technology that makes basalt rocks able to absorb carbon dioxide and convert it into a solid component in the presence of high pressure, indicating that the interference of the liquid filled with carbon dioxide with the elements calcium, magnesium and iron, found in basalt rocks, begins to transform into Solid form.
"We basically extract carbonated water from carbon dioxide, and then these pipes are collected over several miles, where they were deposited under high pressure in the basalt rocks that extend at an altitude of 3300 feet below the surface of Iceland," said project manager Ida Saif Aradottier. When the carbon dioxide-filled liquid comes into contact with the calcium, magnesium and iron in basalt, it begins to mineralize.
"Almost all of the carbon dioxide that was injected within two years was extracted through experimental injection," Aradottier said.
In the same context, scientists said that this method has reduced emissions by a third, preventing 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
Although this method has proven effective in Iceland, the researchers note that in other parts of the world its application may not be logistically feasible, because every ton of carbon dioxide injected into rock requires 25 tons of desalinated water in this way. .
"This process uses a lot of water, but we gain a lot by permanently removing the carbon dioxide that might float in the atmosphere," Aradottier said.
And the participation of researchers in these experiments «Karpfix» project in Iceland in cooperation with the University of Iceland, the French National Center for Scientific Research and Columbia University in the United States.
Despite growing interest in technology that reduces greenhouse gas emissions around the world, carbon capture and storage methods such as those used by researchers in Iceland have been slow to gain steam.
Under the Paris climate accord, Iceland aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030.
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