Basalt dust can retain large amounts of CO2, according to this startup.
The large companies in the technology sector, companies like Alphabet, Stripe, or Shopify, also dedicate time and resources to reducing their carbon footprint to minimize climate change. And they have a new hope placed in some very special rockswhich are capable of filtering carbon dioxide (CO2) and are being investigated by the company Lithos Carbon.
Rocks that absorb CO2
It has been known for a long time that the soil is capable of retaining large amounts of carbon dioxide, which are released when these same lands are worked. That is why Lithos Carbon is working under this same premise to create spaces in which, thanks to these pulverized rocks, carbon dioxide remains in the soil and is not released into the atmosphere. Likewise, it is also capable of retaining CO2 from the air so that this element is filtered into the soil. AND the key rock would be basalt.
Basalt, as an alkaline igneous rock, is capable of retain carbon dioxide when sprayed, something that, today, is already actively used in crops. Now, however, large companies are looking increase scale of this technique to try counteract the environmental impact of human pollution.
There are still many doubts about the large scale efficiency of these rockswhich, although they are capable of reducing the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere, many consider insufficient to slow down the rate of CO2 production that exists on Earthurging the most powerful companies to make carbon dioxide reduction must be filed from your own commercial year.
Environmental transition measures
Is about a quite striking initiative through basalt dustbut other large companies are also making efforts to become more sustainable, such as, for example, the case of apple. In fact, the company wants to make its commitment to the environment so clear that, in the last Keynote that Apple held to present the iPhone 15, it also held a relaxed spot in which it explained its future plans and goals achieved in terms of environmental impact.
It is evident that, with the appreciable changes that the climate is having in recent years, and with an unleashed greenhouse effect that increasingly increases the temperature of the planetlarge companies, which also tend to be the main polluters in the world, try to reduce its impact with initiatives of this typealthough there is still a lot of work to do.
After a recent Climate Summit that has shown the world position to try to reduce fossil fuels until their eradication, everything will depend on the willingness of companies to move in that same direction. There are many companies and countries with important interests in fossil fuels, but it will be of little use If the atmosphere ends up reaching its point of no return.
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