David Gelles in the New York Times offers another in an expanding effort to explain carbon capture and question the motives of the key actors: Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis? On a windswept Icelandic plateau, an international t…
On a windswept Icelandic plateau, an international team of engineers and executives is powering up an innovative machine designed to alter the very composition of Earth's atmosphere.
"Collector containers" where air is pulled in. Francesca Jones for The New York Times
If all goes as planned, the enormous vacuum will soon be sucking up vast quantities of air, stripping out carbon dioxide and then locking away those greenhouse gases deep underground in ancient stone — greenhouse gases that would otherwise continue heating up the globe.
Just a few years ago, technologies like these, that attempt to re-engineer the natural environment, were on the scientific fringe. They were too expensive, too impractical, too sci-fi.
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