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Detailed explanation-1: -In contrast, the Carbfix project at Iceland’s Hellisheidi plant-the world’s largest geothermal facility, which powers Reykjavik-sought to solidify the CO2.

Detailed explanation-2: -The new “mammoth” plant will contain around 80 large blocks of fans and filters that suck in air and extract its CO2, which Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix then mixes with water and injects underground-where a chemical reaction turns it to rock. The process will be powered by a nearby geothermal energy plant.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reykjavik-based Carbfix captures and dissolves CO₂ in water, then injects it into the ground where it turns into stone in less than two years.

Detailed explanation-4: -CCS involves the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial processes, such as steel and cement production, or from the burning of fossil fuels in power generation. This carbon is then transported from where it was produced, via ship or in a pipeline, and stored deep underground in geological formations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Carbfix project: from CO2 to minerals In 2012, a team of international researchers and engineers began injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) into porous basalt rock, formed from cooling lava, at an underground test site in southwest Iceland. Two years later, almost all of the CO2 had morphed into carbonate minerals.