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A machine capable of removing 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year has just been switched on in Iceland. The plant – named Orca, after the Icelandic word for “energy” – is the largest carbon removal facility in the world, converting emissions into minerals that can be permanently stored deep underground.
Constructed by Swiss company Climeworks, Orca uses fans to draw air into eight large metal boxes. Highly selective filters inside these collector units then capture carbon dioxide on their surfaces.
Once the filters are full, the collectors are closed and the temperature is raised to between 80 and 100 degrees Celsius (176 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit). This releases the carbon dioxide, which can be collected as a highly concentrated gas. More
Only to be sold to soft drink companies to make their sodas phizzy….
100 years from now (perhaps sooner) they will be releasing the trapped CO2 in a mad effort to heat up the Earth.
Kinda like Sleeper where they realize smoking is good for you.
These morons will destroy the planet.
More like a pissant trying to stop a freight train. But at least that silly project should be benign.
How many Megawatts does it take to run those fans and heaters?
They are just collecting the emissions created to make the electricity to run the damn thing. Net Zero Gain.
I guarantee 99% of the carbon dioxide they capture is from all the volcanos they have there.
So we want to trap plant food, you know the stuff that creates life.
4,000 tons of carbon dioxide not very much. It’s barely even a drop in the global, man- and nature-made buckets.
Reminds me of that 1970’s butter commercial: “It’s not nice to fuck with Mother Nature” or something like that.
All I can hear is plants gasping for air.
They had to do something to off set sheep farts & their active volcanoes. Right now they’re having a huge glacier melt, it’s on the mountain of a waking volcano.
And thus begins the true death of the planet.
Remove/reduce the CO2, remove plant “food”.
Reduce/remove plant food, kill off the plants.
Kill off the plants, reduce the O2.
Reduce the O2, slowly but surely kill off the higher animals: people, elephants, leopards, horses, cows…you get the picture.
So all these EcoNazi Libtards that claim to love the planet and “SAVE THE WHALES!” – – don’t.
Anybody ever hear of photosynthesis over there???
Geeesh! The least thing they could do is figure out how to reclaim the O2 before burying it for years underground. I mean, I might need some of that oxygen to breath someday.
Most if not all of the energy they are using for their scheme is coming from the heat from the volcanoes that are spewing ~100,000,000 times the amount of CO2 they are capturing, so the only money wasted is for maintenance and repairs of the equipment. So more or less benign. But on the other hand… HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE THESE RETARDS ???
How about just planting some trees?
….the TRUE world’s biggest carbon capture machine..
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Tsquared wins this thread.
Why build it? Because somebody will pay for it and somebody makes a butt load of money. I thought it would be coal fired.
“carbon capture machine”
The Corn belt across America, consumes 1 1/2 times the carbon, as the Rain forest.
I really can’t imagine higher CO2 levels, wouldn’t all the plants just grow faster.
The rain forest is a misdirect, while they clear cut forest here in the US.
I call bullshit on the whole thing. But it reminds me that I need more CO2 for my aquariums.
I don’t know how much these geniuses spent on that plant, but it looks pretty expensive. So why not instead, take that money build acres and acres of greenhouses, all geothermal heated, and grow food? The plants actually convert CO2 into oxygen. It’s a win-win-win!
Does this machine include a big fan? Throw AlGore into it
So the financial part of the plan is to get Imbeciles to Send $1,200 to Iceland to pay them to trap the air they exhale from their lungs.
Sounds perfectly reasonable.
If you want bigger, stronger plants in your greenhouse, you buy CO2 tanks and mete it out to give them more to work with.
CO2 is plant food. Not a pollutant. It doesn’t just float around and not be used by plants. If you lived on a submarine you’d need a scrubber, but out in the atmosphere where the world’s plants are, it’s a good, necessary, thing.
My goodness the father of lies must be pleased with how well he deceives humanity.
4,000 tons, huh?
Seeing as there’s ~5.9326 E+15 tons of Air, that makes roughly 2.1357 E+12 tons of Carbon Dioxide, so they’re removing what? About 1.8729 E-7 % per year?
And they spent money on this bullshit?
Musta been one fast-talking salesman!
izlamo delenda est …
Elizabeth Holmes is sitting in court right now muttering in her fake baritone how she wishes she’d of thought of this one.
How in the world did I get trapped on the set of “Idiocracy”.
I remember the day ORCA became self-aware.
So they blew the peoples money on this shit & some contractor got richer……
Holocene Waning:
https://newtube.app/user/Marooned/kysU3fG
P.S. https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Skeptic-Comprehensive-Earths-Climate/dp/0984782915