{"id":23346,"date":"2024-05-13T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T06:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23346"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:27:42","slug":"mammoth-carbon-capture-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mammoth-carbon-capture-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth carbon capture Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mammoth carbon capture Plant:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the largest <strong>carbon dioxide capture and storage<\/strong> facility of its kind and launched operations. It is situated on a dormant volcano in <strong>Iceland.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is dubbed as &#8220;Mammoth,&#8221; this plant is Climeworks&#8217; second commercial direct air capture (DAC) facility in the nation and is significantly larger than its predecessor, Orca, which began in 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This cutting-edge technology draws in air and chemically extracts carbon dioxide, which can then be stored underground, <strong>converted into stone, or reused.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Swiss company Climeworks, in partnership with Icelandic company Carbfix, plans to sequester the captured carbon by turning it into stone beneath the earth&#8217;s surface, utilizing Iceland\u2019s abundant geothermal energy to power the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is direct air capture?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This technology <strong>extracts CO2 directly from the atmosphere<\/strong> at any location, unlike carbon capture which is generally carried out at the point of emissions, such as a steel plant.<\/li>\n<li>The CO2 can be permanently stored in deep geological formations or used for a variety of applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Carbon farming?<\/h3>\n<p>Carbon farming is a set of agricultural practices that aim to store carbon in the soil, plant material, wood, and leaves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/icelands-mammoth-raises-potential-for-carbon-capture\/article68160386.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Iceland&#8217;s &#8216;Mammoth&#8217; raises potential for carbon capture<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammoth carbon capture Plant is the largest carbon dioxide capture and storage facility of its kind and launched operations. It is situated on a dormant volcano in Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}