The following report is by CNN:
The “world’s largest” plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on Wednesday.
“Mammoth” is the second commercial direct air capture plant opened by Swiss company Climeworks in the country, and is 10 times bigger than its predecessor, Orca, which started running in 2021.
Direct air capture, or DAC, is a technology designed to suck in air and strip out the carbon using chemicals. The carbon can then be injected deep beneath the ground, reused or transformed into solid products.
Climeworks plans to transport the carbon underground where it will be naturally transformed into stone, locking up the carbon permanently. It is partnering with Icelandic company Carbfix for this so-called sequestration process.
The whole operation will be powered by Iceland’s abundant, clean geothermal energy.
[…] But carbon removal technologies such as DAC are still controversial. They have been criticized as expensive, energy-hungry and unproven at scale. Some climate advocates are also concerned they could distract from policies to cut fossil fuels.This technology “is fraught with uncertainties and ecological risks,” said Lili Fuhr, director of the fossil economy program at the Center for International Environmental Law, speaking about carbon capture generally.
Climeworks started building Mammoth in June 2022, and the company says it is the world’s largest such plant. It has a modular design with space for 72 “collector containers” — the vacuum parts of the machine that capture carbon from the air — which can be stacked on top of each other and moved around easily. There are currently 12 of these in place with more due to be added over the next few months.
Mammoth will be able to pull 36,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere a year at full capacity, according to Climeworks. That’s equivalent to taking around 7,800 gas-powered cars off the road for a year.
Climeworks did not give an exact cost for each ton of carbon removed, but said it was closer to $1,000 a ton than $100 a ton – the latter of which is widely seen as a key threshold for making the technology affordable and viable.
As the company scales up the size of its plants and bring costs down, the aim is to reach $300 to $350 a ton by 2030 before hitting $100 a ton around 2050, said Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder and co-CEO of Climeworks, on a call with reporters.
The new plant is “an important step in the fight against climate change,” said Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh. It will increase the size of equipment to capture carbon pollution.
But, he cautioned, it’s still a tiny fraction of what’s needed.
Read the rest of the report here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Carbon is a necessary building block of life and is present in nearly everything save only a handful of things. Sucking carbon out of the atmosphere or out of anything can cause side effects that are not being reported on purpose, all for the goals defeating an enemy that does not exist, just like the mammoth.
Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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What a waste of energy – their name should be . . . ‘Crimeworks’
Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
As if we didn’t feel bad enough walking outside with EMF’s and GEO-ENGINEERING, now we have to suffer the consequences of a massive vacuum sucking God’s gases out of our atmosphere!
Positive note: The town I live in, Wilton, Iowa, is the birthplace of a former hymnwriter, Charles H. Gabriel. He composed hymns such as “My Saviour’s Love”, “Higher Ground”, and “Oh, That Will Be Glory”.
Ummm don’t these idiots know that all trees need our carbon to breathe and live , lest they die. So I guess when they die they going to further claim climate change. They should be arrested for threating all life on earth by removing any ounce of carbon.
Time of Jacobs trouble is gonna be sooooo sad.
Of course they know. They want to kill us.
Jacob, will you be doing an article on all the chatter of the cicadas that have now arrived to the USA.
I see some fakers trying to convince people it’s Revelation 9:11 happenings
Your thoughts pls
Oh good grief. These fakers are always spewing nonsense. We’ll see if I get around to it.
A zillion dollar vacuum cleaner, what a novel idea LOL, it sucks more than just air, it does even better at sucking money out of useful idiots’ wallets!
Don’t walk in front of it, you too will get slurped up LOL
Idiots playing God again, my prayer is that it will have tons of problems.