New Iceland plant scales up CO2 removal from air
Swiss start-up Climeworks unveils its second plant in Iceland sucking carbon dioxide from the air and stocking it underground, scaling up its capacity tenfold with the aim of eliminating millions of tonnes of CO2 by 2030.
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00:24 >> We inject CO2 that is dissolved in water, so essentially just sparkling water
00:32 into the subsurface where we have rocks like this.
00:36 And these rocks contain metals, calcium, magnesium, iron.
00:43 And when this CO2 gas fluid, the sparkling water, touches the rock, it releases these metals.
00:52 And then they combine with the CO2 and form these carbonate minerals
00:57 that you can see here as these white dots.
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