🇮🇸 Turning CO2 into stone in Iceland - earthrise
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2017
- One hundred percent of Iceland's electricity needs are generated from renewable sources, including geothermal energy.
With the aim of cutting emissions even further, a unique carbon capture system called CarbFix is being pioneered at the Hellsheidi geothermal power plant in western Iceland.
Carbon dioxide emissions are captured, mixed with water and injected into the ground. Through this process, the CO2 is transformed into a mineral called calcite within just six months. This solid form of CO2 storage is seen as one of the most effective ways of preventing the gas from entering the atmosphere.
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Just speculating what else they could do with their "by products"
They could use the waste heat and water after generating electricity to heat and water large greenhouses built next to the plant. They could also use at least a portion of the co2 to boost production in said greenhouses. This would also make them less dependent on food imports. If costs were low enough they could become an exporter of fresh veggies and fruit. For that matter dependent on costs they could make indoor, self contained pastures for livestock in a closed system that would create all the fertilizer and such that they need to keep food production high. It would be interesting if they could also use the catalyzing cement that breaks down a lot or all of the compounds that they are currently injecting back into the earth in the construction of these type of buildings.
It would be interesting to see if an integrated approach like this would work or if it is just not really practical or affordable. I know that a geothermal plant in another country (which one it is I cannot remember) has an aquaculture business using the water no longer hot enough to spin a turbine growing shrimp and I believe crayfish cheaper and better quality with little to no danger of the contamination sometimes found in wild caught shellfish.
Well I scrolled down a little further and found that Iceland already heat greenhouses with geothermal...now don't I feel silly.
Fascinating and very inspiring video. I was just comparing the Nordic approach of "We have a problem - OK, so we solve it with science and move on." to the American "We have a problem so we pretend science is wrong and go back to claiming everything is 'the wrath of god.'" The Nordic approach works for me.
Climate change deniers have this delusion that the only solutions bring offered is communism. Here we see private businesses using green fuel.
@shapeshifterairwaves - I agree with you, we should be "grown up" enough to be able to discern.
Take the good examples from others is necessary, but automatically label them as "holy" is detrimental to our efforts. We have to maintain a rational and non-emotional point of view.
We can turn CO2 into fabric. We can make our clothes and our shoes out of CO2. Every person emits through their own actions and the products they use tons of CO2 every year. We can have make tons of cheap clothes and shoes every year.
We can pay for them with the green dividend.
im pretty sure the americans don't call that the wrath of God or anything
you just making stuff up out of thin air, just to fulfill your biased hatred against US as typical US basher does
do you use your brain? it says most of them are geothermal, as it happens iceland has good geothermal potential
the problem in US why they can't be iceland is simply because the electricity consumption in USA is FAR HIGHER than the meager scale of iceland. Do i have to tell you about this?
and they don't have equivalent amount of geothermal potential, learn more about scientific acts before you whine about 'lack of science in US'
dream on loser.. and get some knowledge to your empty brain for once
Uuh huh, uuh huh, but can I interest you in moving to America and voting viciously and with a fiery passion....? That'd work super well for _me_
I think I'm drowning in willful morons and apathetic morons.
And kicking me while I'm down isn't helpful xp
if you have geothermal use it, I used to live in a area where we had a few geothermal powerplants, we never had a brownout or blackout and this was in California.
Good work congratulations to all of the producers of this video it was very informative
Incredible. Perfect video. Answered all of my questions. Thank you.
Great technology but pay attention, @ 10:00 he states "as long as you have suitable rock" meaning this will not work for say ground made of carbonate, the byproduct of this geothermal is acidic water, so injecting it into carbonate rock will dissolve your ground (sinkhole).
You are guys are helping the world !!
Iceland is an awesome country!
They got geothermal energy in New Zealand.
At least future generation of Iceland can look back to this generation and say they was OK
Might it be possible to pump the waste water into molds to form building blocks from the stone created ? Maybe using a "seed" of limestone ?
Having lot of moisture in the building leads to mold! How are they avoiding molding???🤔
The outdoor cooking to make steam you can use all the sidewalk snow to melt...
So they are not making stone, just pumping into ground...
his initial quote was a bit misspoken. Iceland is not the only country running 100% on renewable sources. Costa Rica has been for years. Iceland is the first. Iceland is the only one on geothermal.. iceland is also the leader in efficiency and energy reuse.
Iceland is a world leader in renewables. It produces all of its electricity requirements by hydro and geothermal energy. And 70%of all energy need are met through renewables. Holy smokes.
Transporting Geothermal energy to the UK. How they are going to do that. There is ocean and that will suck up all the heat. It must be a costly venture.
Heard of electric cables? A pretty efficient way of transporting energy.
Remember that it has co2 and so2 waste gases, so it is not perfect. While geothermal isn't universal it can be used in similar situations.
Isn't oil coal and gas renewable? New coal oil and gas does get made. It does renew.
@@Competitive_Antagonist
No, coal and oil are not considered renewables. Coal was created during the Carboniferous Period 299-359 million years ago when there were enough plants as to raise the planet's oxygen level to 162% of today hosting insects of monstrous size. It is unlikely that the planet will ever see that level of growth and undecayed vegetation again.
Crude oil is usually formed when organic material is washed into the ocean and covered with silt. A salt dome is created via drying of the sea. Vast amounts of soil and rock needs to be put down in order to create tremendous pressure over millions of years.
There is some research being done trying to get genetically modified microbes to create diesel. I do not know the level of success, or if it was feasible or scalable.
Iceland is so advanced that after the 2008 financial crash, they jailed bankers. They are amazing in their environmental innovation which is solid economically as well.
What was the results.
Of course it will be lower than ‘background levels’ because the rest is water in the test.
Wonderful
This would also work with cement plants, a large source of nearly pure CO2.
Are you saying they should turn it into cement?
this literally gave me hope. ty
i love mother earth and im not just being mystical for effusive effect. Would you harm your mother the same you harm the planet?
Baseflow concentrations of DOC in undisturbed watersheds generally range from approximately 1 to 20 mg/L carbon. Seawater has the lowest DOC with a median concentration of 0.5 mg/L. The maximum solubility of carbon dioxide in water at 20 degrees celsius is 1,5g, well below the 2g presented in the video. I guess people will believe anything a scientist says.
Mmmm could they combine the hydrogen sulphide and the carbon dioxide to make hydrocarbon products such as methane and petrol
Possible to re-purpose the heat from the cement production process? Perhaps solar and/or geo to power ducting fans, etc.
This is what all the countries in the world should do this! Coal and fossil fuel power stations should turn the expelled gas into rocks instead of pumping it up into the atmosphere! ;-)
Dont they get free heat there?
Amazing stuff. Way to go iceland.
In Australia we had a price on carbon in their wisdom??? They destroyed the effectiveness of it
Claiming that CO2 reductions are ineffective because they are supposedly cancelled out by volcanoes, other processes (& China) is just garden-variety denialism. The CO2 load on the atmosphere is cumulative.
What an amazing way to get rid of excess carbon dioxide! When can we start this in the United States?
CC CC - Never! Science is just fake news in the good ol' US of A! They believe in Gawd allmighty!
They've actually already started it NRG received government funds (under the Obama administration funny enough) to test out the same carbon sequestration idea. The biggest issue is if the carbon leaks will it cause things like earthquakes or other issues but they've been doing this since 2016-ish I believe
Hmmm... okay but the population of iceland is ~337 000. I wonder if this would work for millions of people in urban areas? Doubt it :(
At Yellowstone?
Yeah, US should totally look into geothermal at Yellowstone. Maybe they have?
Yellow stone isn't that much reliable when it comes to Geothermal energy. It is little unpredictable. But certainly, some measures can be taken.
CC CC. I was just thinking that...
It's just ironic that this "free energy" is available in a part of the world where most people don't want to live
Give more new video
by the looks of your weather up there a little global warming woudent go amiss
0:45 Teabag
Wonderful and good for them.... but for the rest of the world that doesn't live on top of an active volcano.....
Geothermal doesn't strictly require volcanic activity. It does help - makes it cheaper to install - because you don't have to drill as far. But it could be installed anywhere on the world's surface if you dig deep enough, maybe even on ocean bottoms if you really wanted.
@DJ, true enough, but ever region in the world has some sort of natural advantage and there is no reason they should not use it combined with technology. We could go on and on why we dont do stuff but in the end it all comes down to a lack of will and a lack of political courage with a little greed thrown in.
Maximum solubility of CO2 in water at 10 degrees celsius is 2g.
I will say no to steam kitchen
WE do not want to cut carbon emissions!!! the greening of the planet taking place is so beneficial, crops and forests are growing better than ever. This silliness about climate change ignores all the benefits occurring and the fact is temperatures have barely changed and we don't even understand how much is due to man. The benefits of increased CO2 are irrefutable!!! go look at NASA's latest photos of the planet and the increase in plant growth.
Byron Allen wow really the climate crisis will be ended by 2025 said by bbc news because of this project so it’s good we can continue planting after this is resolved they basically found the solution to climate change
Byron Allen if anything temperatures are falling down 2016 hottest 2017 lower 2018 lower 2019 even lower
They never talk about how this sulfer smells like rotton egg farts.
TREES
Local geothermal is win win, plasma gasification to take care of trash produce syngas, diesel and power
I don't like the idea of locking away CO2. For every carbon atom there's two oxygen atoms. We need to separate off the carbon and lock just that away. We're actually going to worsen the carbon concentration in the atmosphere doing this. We need biological engines which can perform the task with natural sunlight to split the CO2 molecule and then lock the carbon away or use it for graphene engineering.
i wish the whole world, at least the developed world would follow this kind of way. Today the industrialized world produces the biggest part of co2, they need to rethink.
hope pakistanis will not go there and start inbreeding or madrasa
With this technology, using coal can be clean.
Would be nice if aluminium, chlorine and other electricity based transformation plants be transferred to Iceland, to avoid other dirty forms of generation.
Expecially hydropower, the dirtiest of whatever the kind.
Why is hydropower dirty?
@@keno77777 Basically, the perfect spot for an hydropowerplant is also the very same place where wonderful riverfalls are located and, even more important, those falls are a natural barrier to the free flux of all the rives life forms
This commonly leads to the development of endemic species of fishs and other creatures above the falls, species that won't be found anywhere in the planet and will easily become extinct just after the river is dammed
There are many other serious natural impacts, but this two are enough to discard hydropower as a clean source of energy
@@r.guerreiro140 good to know.
but that reminds me of the mister beaver. sure he does upset the natural equilibrium in some environments but in other places he is a necessary nuisance. I'd b cautious to say all hyrdopower is dirty but yes everything must be done precisely and with great care.
ok, how can we do this with methane?
Isn't Sulphur bad for health? All the Sulphur depositing onto the food can't be good for long term consumption. Maybe they can filter out the Sulphur first?
sulfur is actually important for certain bodily functions but i agree that they should investigate whether they're taking in concentrations too large
It beats nuclear power stations, which are too expensive to maintain and gives off a bit too much pollution. Coal power stations creates too much pollution. Sulphur just smells like rotten eggs, but I doubt it's as bad as today's heavily polluting methods. Most people underestimate natural sources of energy and the damage of pollution to living beings.
NefariousFox, No. Nuclear power plants might not be as polluting as coal power plants, but it still spreads pollution. There's many areas across the earth that are covered in smog. I just think it's a big waste to have nuclear power plants, and the only people who want it are the rich and wealthy.
NefariousFox, You're an idiot, who shows no evidence.
Well, there's always the question of what to do with nuclear waste. I'd take geothermal over nuclear any day. Also, NefariousFox, you don't have to be so nasty about it.
Holy ish, somebody tell this resident of Death Valley to send somebody else to 'deal with' the snow next time. Good lord, dude, it's cold. Stop complaining and start moving. Wear layers. Focus. And deal, my dude, lawd............ Never mind you telling me 1,000 times; YOU TOLD A LOCAL IT'S COLD OUTSIDE, holy fuqq.......
holy sssshhhssmoke XD
I'm particularly speaking of ways to fix free SO2 and CO2 in rocks to offset the huge increase in greenhouse gases; geothermal energy is just a plus to that IMO!
LESS PEOPLE,not MORE!
LESS PEOPLE!
FEWER people, not more! FEWER PEOPLE! 100% agreed.
Ok you're excused
If you were absent from this Earth we would miss you
I know this guy who has 19 kids in Houston. All baby momma kind of stuff. And he's still breeding so he may have 30+ kids when all is said and done.
You guys need to get out there and breed some sows.
We're already at the saturation rate of CO2 and none of its going to go into the atmosphere anymore anyway that's why it's been staying at a steady rate and hasn't been heating up it's actually cooled in the last 20 years
Give start hare about Bangladesh.
What the 25- 30 million students learn about the 1971 freedom of war.who was the hero? Who was villain? What was truth?
Please give about Bangladesh Freedom 1971
The CO 2 numbers are fact. The CO 2 latency period of decades is fact. The Methane numbers are fact. The feedback loops are fact. The melting ice is fact. The ocean and land temp increases are fact. Exponential as a mathematical concept is fully understandable. Global dimming is a fact. The baseline is 1750, not 1950-1981 and we are easily past 1.5 C and already very near 2.0; actually 4.0 in the Arctic where it really matters. There are known temperature numbers for decline and failure of agriculture which we are now flirting with. The world population continues to grow as does the use of fossil fuels. The 6th mass extinction is factually underway. Literally nothing of a meaningful nature was done 40 years ago when it mattered and nothing is being done or will be done even now when it is too late. Human beings will vanish from this planet in very short order, probably years.
We should just glass the whole planet to end everyone's misery quicker
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the power plant supplies cheap energy to refine aluminum . shut down the defense industry and you don't need any of this stuff .
Seriously... You think that's the biggest and sole application of aluminium?
military is tiny fraction of uses for aluminum, soda cans building materials etc are the bulk use, and forget aluminum foil and cars
Interesting to see what is possible when you have a well educated low population country...and because they never got suckered in to paying for the 2008 crash, they had more money to invest in these technologies
M.A.G.A
Mr trump watch and learn
liquiiced he’s still trying to save coal...
I assume that the idea of providing the UK with geo-thermal energy has been scuttled due to Brexit. Yet another moronic move by the UK.
A policy as goverment a non white paper.
Scotland has enough wind energy to power Britain 10 TIMES OVER AND THAT'S JUST WIND AND WE PAY THE HIGHEST TAX IN EUROPE