{"id":8293,"date":"2023-11-05T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T14:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2023-11-05T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T14:38:56","slug":"how-icelandic-carbfix-harnesses-the-power-of-converting-co2-into-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/05\/how-icelandic-carbfix-harnesses-the-power-of-converting-co2-into-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Iceland&#039;s Carbfix, it harnesses the power of turning CO2 into stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">In a small geodesic dome in the above-ground environment of Iceland\u2019s massive Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, \u00d3lafur Teitur Gu\u00f0nason is demonstrating a new approach to storing CO2 emissions that is attracting global attention. In the dome, owned by Icelandic startup Carbfix, CO2 piped in from a nearby power plant is mixed with water pumped from the ground and injected into the basalt rock below. <span>In the nine years since the company began injecting CO2 from the power plant, 95 % has turned into a rock in the subsurface in less than two years, says Gu\u00f0nason, Carbfix&#039;s communications director. <\/span><span>The water acts as a carrier and kills the buoyancy of the CO2 and radically accelerates the naturally occurring process of CO2 mineralization when it comes into contact with the basalt. <\/span><span>&quot;Our technology accelerates processes that normally occur on geological timescales. Instead of taking thousands of years (to mineralize CO2 into rock), we can do it in two years.&quot;<\/span><em>Terry Slavin<\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a small geodesic dome in the extraterrestrial setting of Iceland\u2019s vast Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, \u00d3lafur Teitur Gu\u00f0nason is demonstrating a new approach to storing CO2 emissions that is attracting global attention. In the dome, owned by Icelandic startup Carbfix, CO2 piped in from a nearby power plant is mixed with water pumped from the ground and injected into the basalt rock below. In [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikove-kredity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}