Recently, The World's largest Carbon capture plant Named Orca has come online in Iceland, o fighting the increasingly dire threat of climate change.
What is World's largest Carbon capture plant Orca?
World's largest Carbon capture plant Orca is an artificial plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rocks.
How it Works?
To collect the carbon dioxide, the plant uses fans to draw air into a collector, which has a filter material inside. Once the filter material is filled with CO2, the collector is closed and the temperature is raised to release the CO2 from the material, after which the highly concentrated gas can be collected.
The CO2 is then mixed with the water before being injected at a depth of 1,000 metres into the nearby basalt rock where it is mineralised.
Why it is game changing?
Using a system of fans, filters and heaters and powered by a nearby geothermal power plant, it has the capacity to pull 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide out of the air each year and pump it into underground caverns where the gas, mixed with water, will slowly become stone as it cools.
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