{"id":70931,"date":"2019-10-12T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70931"},"modified":"2019-10-07T01:35:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:35:43","slug":"could-injecting-carbon-into-the-earth-save-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70931","title":{"rendered":"Could Injecting Carbon Into the Earth Save Our Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8riq9piAdiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carbon pollution is being sucked from the sky and injected into underground rocks\u2014will Climeworks\u2019 ambitious plan to stop climate change work?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fsubscribeseeker&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb Watch more Elements! <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FElementsPlaylist&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iceland is a land of majestic waterfalls, black sands, sparkling glaciers, and possibly one of the world\u2019s wildest solutions for solving climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Nestled beside the majestic hills of southwestern Iceland are giant carbon collecting machines capable of snatching CO2 straight from the air and injecting it into underground stones, where the gas can be stored safely for millennia.<\/p>\n<p>Our planet is heating up fast. Carbon dioxide levels now exceed 415 parts per million, higher than they\u2019ve ever been in the past 800,000 years. And while there\u2019s a dispute over what number constitutes a dangerous threshold, there\u2019s a consensus that the current carbon dioxide levels must drop to avoid imminent catastrophic warming.<\/p>\n<p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, estimates that by the end of the century we must pull at least 100 gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere and as much as 1,000 gigatons, which is the equivalent of 20 years worth of global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>20 years!<\/p>\n<p>So how on Earth are we ever going to accomplish pulling 20 years worth of global greenhouse gas emissions from our atmosphere?<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the rapid adoption of renewable energy and wide-scale reforestation,\u00a0 the IPCC maintains that carbon dioxide removal technologies will be critical when it comes to tackling and curbing climate change.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where direct air capture, or DAC, technology comes into play. This idea of pulling CO2 directly from the air has actually been around for far more than a decade, but it\u2019s only over the past few years has this tech has come into its own. Resting under the umbrella of geoengineering, which is essentially just the intentional manipulation of Earth\u2019s climate system, DAC works by redirecting carbon pollution from the sky and placing it someplace more benign. Like inside rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this carbon dioxide removal technology and how it can assist in the efforts to save our planet on this episode of Elements.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23CarbonDioxide\">#CarbonDioxide<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23ClimateChange\">#ClimateChange<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23GreenhouseGasEmissions\">#GreenhouseGasEmissions<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Pollution\">#Pollution<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Technology\">#Technology<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Seeker\">#Seeker<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Elements\">#Elements<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Science\">#Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n<p>Negative Emission Technologies: Silver Bullet or Ethically Ambiguous?<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fclimate.org%2Fnegative-emission-technologies-silver-bullet-or-ethically-ambiguous%2F&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/climate.org\/negative-emission-&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;If negative emission technologies are perceived as a silver bullet \u2013 an all-encompassing response that will solve our problems \u2013 we run the risk of delaying or altogether stopping to pursue aggressive mitigation actions, placing us in an even worse position than we are currently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fmagazine%2Fclimeworks-business-climate-change.html&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/12\/ma&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Gebald and Wurzbacher believe the way to gain a commercial foothold is to sell their expensive CO\u2082 to agriculture or beverage companies. Not only do these companies require CO\u2082 anyway, some also seem willing to pay a premium for a vital ingredient they can use to help market their products as eco-friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sucking carbon out of the air won\u2019t solve climate change<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fenergy-and-environment%2F2018%2F6%2F14%2F17445622%2Fdirect-air-capture-air-to-fuels-carbon-dioxide-engineering&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-enviro&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Models that show us hitting the Paris climate target of \u201cwell below\u201d 2\u00b0C rise in global average temperature almost all involve enormous amounts of negative emissions, which they mostly get from BECCS. The other potential negative emissions technology is DAC + carbon sequestration, which can move carbon from the air (the biosphere) into the ground (the geosphere).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Seeker website <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seeker.com%2Fvideos&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elements on Facebook\u00a0 <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSeekerElements%2F&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SeekerElements\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe now! <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_c&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeker on Twitter <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fseeker&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/seeker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeker on Facebook <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSeekerMedia%2F&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SeekerMedia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeker <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=kTGXRZrH8OyihYicI8rVTiSKUvp8MTU3MDUxMjYyNkAxNTcwNDI2MjI2&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seeker.com%2F&amp;v=8riq9piAdiE&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon pollution is being sucked from the sky and injected into underground rocks\u2014will Climeworks\u2019 ambitious plan to stop climate change work? \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker \u00bb Watch more Elements! http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist Iceland is a land of majestic waterfalls, black sands, sparkling glaciers, and possibly one of the world\u2019s wildest solutions for solving climate change. Nestled beside the majestic hills of southwestern Iceland are giant carbon collecting machines capable of snatching CO2 straight from the air and injecting it into underground stones, where the gas can be stored safely for millennia. Our planet is heating up fast. Carbon dioxide levels now exceed 415 parts per million, higher than they\u2019ve ever been in the past 800,000 years. And while there\u2019s a dispute over what number constitutes a dangerous threshold, there\u2019s a consensus that the current carbon dioxide levels must drop to avoid imminent catastrophic warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, estimates that by the end of the century we must pull at least 100 gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere and as much as 1,000 gigatons, which is the equivalent of 20 years worth of global greenhouse gas emissions. 20 years! So how on Earth are we ever going to accomplish pulling 20 years worth of global greenhouse gas emissions from our atmosphere? In addition to the rapid adoption of renewable energy and wide-scale reforestation,\u00a0 the IPCC maintains that carbon dioxide removal technologies will be critical when it comes to tackling and curbing climate change. And that\u2019s where direct air capture, or DAC, technology comes into play. This idea of pulling CO2 directly from the air has actually been around for far more than a decade, but it\u2019s only over the past few years has this tech has come into its own. Resting under the umbrella of geoengineering, which is essentially just the intentional manipulation of Earth\u2019s climate system, DAC works by redirecting carbon pollution from the sky and placing it someplace more benign. Like inside rocks. Learn more about this carbon dioxide removal technology and how it can assist in the efforts to save our planet on this episode of Elements. #CarbonDioxide #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGasEmissions #Pollution #Technology #Seeker #Elements #Science Read More: Negative Emission Technologies: Silver Bullet or Ethically Ambiguous? http:\/\/climate.org\/negative-emission-&#8230; &#8220;If negative emission technologies are perceived as a silver bullet \u2013 an all-encompassing response that will solve our problems \u2013 we run the risk of delaying or altogether stopping to pursue aggressive mitigation actions, placing us in an even worse position than we are currently.&#8221; The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/12\/ma&#8230; &#8220;Gebald and Wurzbacher believe the way to gain a commercial foothold is to sell their expensive CO\u2082 to agriculture or beverage companies. Not only do these companies require CO\u2082 anyway, some also seem willing to pay a premium for a vital ingredient they can use to help market their products as eco-friendly.&#8221; Sucking carbon out of the air won\u2019t solve climate change https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-enviro&#8230; &#8220;Models that show us hitting the Paris climate target of \u201cwell below\u201d 2\u00b0C rise in global average temperature almost all involve enormous amounts of negative emissions, which they mostly get from BECCS. The other potential negative emissions technology is DAC + carbon sequestration, which can move carbon from the air (the biosphere) into the ground (the geosphere).&#8221; Visit the Seeker website https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/videos Elements on Facebook\u00a0 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SeekerElements\/ Subscribe now! http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_c&#8230; Seeker on Twitter http:\/\/twitter.com\/seeker Seeker on Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SeekerMedia\/ Seeker http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,1302],"class_list":["post-70931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-seeker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70932,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70931\/revisions\/70932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}