Carbon dioxide has been pumped underground and turned rapidly into stone, demonstrating a radical new way to tackle climate change. The unique project promises a cheaper and more secure way of burying CO2 from fossil fuel burning underground, where it cannot warm the planet. Such carbon capture and storage (CCS) is thought to be essential to halting global warming, but existing projects store the CO2 as a gas and concerns about costs and potential leakage have halted some plans. The new research pumped CO2 into the volcanic rock under Iceland and sped up a natural process where the basalts react with the gas to form carbonate minerals, which make up limestone. The researchers were amazed by how fast all the gas turned into a solid – just two years, compared to the hundreds or thousands of years that had been predicted. http://www.theguardian.com/environm...one-in-iceland-in-climate-change-breakthrough
Really interesting and..... http://www.sciforums.com/threads/carbon-emissions-turn-to-stone.156672/ It is another thread about it.
Yes the other thread has the information I was looking for, namely WHY basalt can achieve this conversion. I've made some comments there about it.
Thanks a lot sir ! I simply liked the other thread but didn't look up about the information but I had a question that you were looking for namely....
