Iceland Joins The Fight Against Carbon Emission With Orca

News has emerged that Iceland’s company Carbfix has joined hands with a Swiss company, Climeworks to cut down carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The plant is the world’s innovative step in this direction. The plant is said to be the largest direct air capture plant, meaning it captures carbon from the air, stores it deep underground and converts it into a rock-solid form through Carbfiz’s “natural mineralization process”.  If successful, the plant can remove 4000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air in a year, this emission is equal to that of some 870 cars. Also what is more relatively interesting is that this plant runs on renewable energy and uses less steel comparatively in its structural base. The structure appears to look like a stackable container shaper unit, some eight units make one Orca plant, with a construction time of 15 months. 

The technology behind the functioning of the plant goes like this- the carbon dioxide is sucked from the air, is mixed with water, and sent deep underground to be kept aside with stones and take a rock form. The company hopes to reach a goal to cut down carbon emissions by megatonnes, and sees a bright future in the next decades or so.

The critics suggest that it is a costly affair and a distraction from the practicalities of climate change. While the United Nations suggests that carbon removal from the atmosphere can help the world limit to 1.5 degrees of warming temperatures globally.  

We, at Think With Niche, believe that the climate change awareness programs shall leave a huge impact on the fight for survival moe so important because there is no planet B.