Iceland is about to develop world's largest carbon capture plant
Iceland is about to install the world's largest carbon-capturing plant, called the Orca Plant. It claims to suck carbon dioxide directly from the air and convert it into stones. It will supposedly remove the CO2 permanently from the air at a rate of approximately 4,000 tonnes of CO2 every year. Carbon capture technology and the storage of captured carbon give an opportunity to reduce the emissions generated by non-renewable energy use by 90%. It may not be the complete answer to curbing climate change, but it will be detrimental in helping industries meet their emissions goals. The Orca project was created by Climeworks, and Orca is the company’s direct air capture(DAC) and storage plant-based in Iceland. The plant is a step ahead of the previously established carbon capture projects by mixing the direct air capture technology with carbon dioxide storage, creating an industrial-scale direct carbon capture and storage. The plant runs on a nearby geothermal power plant to provide energy for its filters, heaters, and fans, which are all enlisted to pull tons of CO2 out of the air and transport it into underground reservoirs. The underground carbon dioxide mixes with water and cools down, turning into stone. Orca is aiming to capture 4000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in a year, adding to the 900 tons of CO2 which were captured by Climeworks' first facility, which opened in 2017 in Switzerland.
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