Rock soak up carbon dioxide

Rock soak up carbon dioxide
In a recent discovery scientists found a new rock in Oman that can soak up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and in such discovery scientists believe that it could help to minimize global warming. Its like, when carbon dioxide comes in touch with that rock, peridotite, the gas is converted into solid minerals such as calcite.

Peridotite is the rock that found in below the crust or even in the surface, the availability of this rock mostly seen in Oman.

The scientists at Columbia University's Lamont and Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, say they could start peridotite's carbon storage process by boring down and injecting it with heated water containing pressurized carbon dioxide. They also mentioned that 4 to 5 billion tons could be stored by using synthetic "trees" which suck carbon dioxide out of the air. Country like US, China and India, where abundant surface supplies of the rock are not found, would have to come up with other ways of storing or cutting emissions.


If the method is utilized then lots benefits may occur to the survival of earth and its living creatures.