{"id":73262,"date":"2017-10-12T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T03:24:13","slug":"the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s first \u201cnegative emissions\u201d plant has opened in Iceland\u2014turning carbon dioxide into stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a colorless, odorless, and largely benign gas that humanity just can\u2019t get enough of. We produce 40 trillion kg of carbon dioxide each year, and we\u2019re on track to cross a crucial emissions threshold that will cause global temperature rise to pass the dangerous 2\u00b0C limit set by the Paris climate agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But, in hushed tones, climate scientists are already talking about a technology that could pull us back from the brink. It\u2019s called direct-air capture, and it consists of machines that work like a tree does, sucking carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) out from the air, but on steroids\u2014capturing thousands of times more carbon in the same amount of time, and, hopefully, ensuring we don\u2019t suffer climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least two reasons that, to date, conversations about direct air capture have been muted. First, climate scientists have hoped global carbon emissions would come under control, and we wouldn\u2019t need direct air capture. But most experts believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/11\/world-will-need-carbon-sucking-technology-by-2030s-scientists-warn\">ship has sailed<\/a>. That brings up the second issue: to date, all estimates suggest direct air capture would be exorbitantly expensive to deploy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1100221\/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone\/?utm_source=atlfb\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1100221\/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-p...urce=atlfb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a colorless, odorless, and largely benign gas that humanity just can\u2019t get enough of. We produce 40 trillion kg of carbon dioxide each year, and we\u2019re on track to cross a crucial emissions threshold that will cause global temperature rise to pass the dangerous 2\u00b0C limit set by the Paris climate agreement. But, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}