Is Carbon Capture Here?

"The CO2, which is mixed with water by an Icelandic company called Carbfix to create a drinkable fizzy water.

Several other firms are striving to pull carbon from the air in the United States and elsewhere, but only here in the volcanic plateaus of Iceland is the CO2 being turned into that sparkling cocktail and injected several hundred meters down into basalt bedrock.

 

Calcium released by basalts binds CO2 from the atmosphere forming CaCO3 acting thus as a CO2 trap.

 

Carbfix has discovered that its CO2 mix  chemically reacting with basalt turns to rock in just two or three years instead of the centuries that the mineralization process was believed to take, so it takes the CO2 that Climeworks’ DAC captures and pumps it into the ground through wells protected from the harsh environment by steel igloos that could easily serve as props in a space movie.

It is a permanent solution, unlike the planting of forests which can release their carbon by rotting, being cut down or burning in a warming planet. Even the CO2 that other firms are planning to inject into empty oil and gas fields could eventually leak out, some experts fear, but once carbon turns to rock it is not going anywhere."

 

There are many opportunities to apply this methodology in Russia. Russia has a lot of natural gas from which it is easy to extract hydrogen. The CO2 emitted during such hydrogen production can be trapped in basalt in Russia and turned into stone. Therefore, Russian hydrogen sold to the West and to China via Russian gas pipelines would be green and therefore not burdened by future European Union duties on ecologically dirty goods coming from abroad. The money received would revolve mainly in Moscow, where we, Lithuanians, also know how to earn money.