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🌋 A recent study by @Olenellus & @GambixPT published in @geosociety found that “an extinct #volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of CO2, the equivalent of 24-125yrs of the country’s industrial emissions.”
#CarbonStorage
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🌋 A recent study by @Olenellus & @GambixPT published in @geosociety found that “an extinct #volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of CO2, the equivalent of 24-125yrs of the country’s industrial emissions.”
#CarbonStorage
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“Doing so would rely on a method known as in situ mineral #carbonization, which works when the CO2 taken from the air is pumped deep underground.”
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“Once in the bowels of this extinct volcano, calcium, magnesium, and iron react to the incoming carbon dioxide to form calcite, dolomite, and magnesite, trapping the CO2 forever in a rocky prison.”
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Top #CarbonDioxideRemoval stories/news from the past week covered in a 🧵below ⬇️
Featuring:
🔸@undo
🔸@noya
🔸Frontier
🔸@Climeworks
🔸Apple
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Featuring:
🔸@undo
🔸@noya
🔸Frontier
🔸@Climeworks
🔸Apple
Read below ⬇️
1️⃣ @undocarbon inked a contract with Microsoft to #remove 5000 tonnes of atmospheric CO2 by spreading crushed #basalt rock on agricultural land, accelerating #RockWeathering.
#CarbonRemoval
#CarbonRemoval
2️⃣ The carbon removal startup @noya_carbon has announced the successful closing of its Series A financing round, with $11 million raised in investment for its future #DAC technology projects.
#CarbonRemoval
#CarbonRemoval
Tonight's The Distractions for y'all is very late, pardon, but I guess I might as well do some geology.
2/n Remember! Without stone you have nothing! Without stone you have no Industrial Revolution. No initial anvil.
Here, my photo of (in center) Bulagi Butaka's smithy: knee-bellows w/ protective clay cone, stone for the anvil, one tiny crucible; iron, steel, aluminum & brass.
Here, my photo of (in center) Bulagi Butaka's smithy: knee-bellows w/ protective clay cone, stone for the anvil, one tiny crucible; iron, steel, aluminum & brass.
3/n stone hoodoo! Yes, hoodoo is a proper word, wikipedia it. My photo. Southcentral Tanzania. As a young boy, I lived 10 miles away from this place for a couple of years.
Re-watching some shows while #socialdistancing for #MarchBreak? We're chatting this week about some of our favourites that have great #geology or interesting stories behind their #filminglocations.
#nspoli #cbpoli #NovaScotia #CapeBreton #COVIDCanada #covid19 #COVID19NS
#nspoli #cbpoli #NovaScotia #CapeBreton #COVIDCanada #covid19 #COVID19NS
#GameofThrones used #Iceland's #Thingvellir Park as the #BloodyGate. Its landscape is caused by the Eurasian and #NorthAmerican tectonic plates meeting there and pulling apart at a rate of 2 cms per year. This made a rift valley: low land between 2 separating continents.
#nspoli
#nspoli
#MagheramorneQuarry, #NorthernIreland, is the set for #CastleBlack and #TheWall in #GameofThrones. The quarry wall is used as a backdrop and effects make it look huge.
The site's limestone was used to make cement. #NS has a limestone quarry and cement plant in Brookfield.
#nspoli
The site's limestone was used to make cement. #NS has a limestone quarry and cement plant in Brookfield.
#nspoli
