How Climeworks is Creating Negative Emission Power Plants

In the not-so-distant future, dealing safely with our emissions in a carbon-neutral way will be as natural to us as it is to have our trash picked up by our municipalities, says Jan Wurzbacher, founder of Climeworks. In 2017, Climeworks opened the world’s first negative emissions plant - capturing CO2 at a geothermal plant in Iceland, and turning it into rock.
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[@jonathanbrooks81]

Captured CO2 can also be injected in concrete during production, forming limestone, improving its strength, storing it while helping the concrete industry (2nd largest CO2 emission source) go carbon neutral.

[@jonathanbrooks81]

Concrete production requires extreme heat, so that makes it a great partner for Climeworks and molten salt solar.

[@jjitjare]

Any detail of how your "sponge" works? Is there any chemical solvent involve to absorbed CO2? Also, how much energy you need to heat up the so called "sponge" to 100 C to release 1 ton for CO2? I would assume that the energy would have to be only from renewable source for a possibility of net zero carbon. Did you also account for CO2 emission from builting the facility, solar cells, wind turbine, battery to support the operations? Last question, how to do ensure (or measure) that the fizzy water injected underground is actually turning into stones? Where does the water go eventually? does it have enough time to form stones or it will just go right back to ocean?

[@minibandit]

I have this same question too. $100 for 1 tonne… one could plant a tree on their land for 50c and capture a tonne…

[@saintsamaritan]

Don't be fooled, folks! People love to sell their fancy ideas. Look to Amazonian restoration and programs for reforestation. Yes, it's that simple.

[@bencalhoun8216]

How is there only 2,000 views? This video deserves 50+ million views

[@SolRayz]

Most people are clueless or too dumb to understand the crisis unfolding.

[@kevindomenechaliaga8085]

¿what material are the sponges made of?

[@samardhyani7503]

Why not plant more trees instead?

[@kanchanakularatne9721]

Currently we have very high concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to remove them by the end of this century if we need to reach 2° scenario (See Paris agreement, 2015). Growing plants alone is not sufficient to remove this huge amounts of CO2 by the end of this century because CO2 uptake by plants is a slow process. That's why we need CO2 storage and negative emission technologies!

[@ADerpyReality]

fall + biodiversity + time. Trees don't do it all.

[@unbreakableldorado7723]

Let's do both. Planting trees is great, but wont be anough at all..

[@Interesting-likely]

Хорошая идея, но боятся с последствиями, а надо бороться с причинами. Выходит замах на рубль, а удар на копейку. В любом случае желаю успехов!

[@ulrichsuter3548]

Guete Pitch Jan!

[@wombatpuppy4436]

Thank you Iceland! Tack Island!

[@sparksmacoy]

Legends

[@juleasterisk3290]

thank you

[@trendmethod7388]

nice

[@jinoy517]

Planting trees:am I joke

[@rainbowbridge5259]

LOVE YOU SO MUCH DOING THIS

[@BalboaBaggins]

You're just putting it somewhere else. Pointless. The end of livestock farming, gas cars and burning of coal is what we should focus on.

[@yleetv]

Wouldn't it be better stored as a solid underground than in the atmosphere?

[@ytbabbler]

@@yleetv "Wouldn't it be better stored as a solid underground than in the atmosphere" That is not what they do, they feed it back again by selling it to food production so the food we buy have bigger size but not more nutritional value , just more mass and water and transport/storage costs. Why taking co² from the air while we still have factories that release co² , they should start with recycling that first. When they can make solid carbon, we get somewhere, it can be used to make new electric supercars :-)

[@alexiz.7569]

@@ytbabbler They also need a business model that makes money to survive in the economy. Selling co 2 products is how they survive, if you just make limestone or coal again they would not be able to fund the projects. I think the this is a great project idea and you can take it further. So if you could rather mine the coal back out again that the Co 2 plant made with a new project in order to supplement fuels you will no longer have to sell Co 2 to the economy. (Also i think selling Co 2 to green houses is a great idea, because plants consume it and don't emit it back out in the air but something like air canisters for various products is a loop hole yes )

[@egr6609]

@@yleetv Climeworks does carry out permanent removal (research Climeworks + Carbfix), besides carbon utilization.

[@joseffinat966]

Nog wat vergeten, WIE BERGT HET RUIMTE AFVAL UIT DE RUIMTE 😂 HEELAL 🪐 JUPITER ( J-u-pit er ? Mars ? Saturnus?

[@saintsamaritan]

Don't be fooled, folks. The carbon footprint is only the size of Sasquatch's. Amazonian restoration and national reforestation is the better key. Proper disposal. Increase recycling. Have in mind to reduce gas and oil, fine, but not now when we need to raise and encourage emploment, where the world needs to boost production of goods and transport. Take a hard look... There's too many problems in taking care of people's basic needs. And I know what you're going to say... but mother earth can handle it.