And its aim is that it will take up
one million tonnes of CO2
from the atmosphere every year.
And I love this bit --
where does it go?
They put it deep underground
in the same geological formations
that the Texas oil
was originally squeezed out of.
I love the poetry of this.
It’s like reversing the valve
and putting the CO2
back where it came from.
And recent studies have shown
that if you do that,
98 percent of it will still
be there in 10,000 years.
When you put it down,
it stays down.
This is still a little bit futuristic.
It’s still in the planning
and design stages,
but this carbon capture plant
started operating this year.
A smaller scale,
but it’s already doing it.
This is Climeworks and Carbfix in Iceland.
They're using geothermal heat to power it,
and they’re putting the CO2
into the Icelandic basaltic rock.