Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

Cecilia Keating
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The geodesic domes at the Hellisheidi power plant where CO2 mixed with water is injected underground |Sigurður Ólafur Sigurðsson
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The geodesic domes at the Hellisheidi power plant where CO2 mixed with water is injected underground |Sigurður Ólafur Sigurðsson

Half an hour's drive from Reykjavik, several racks of giant fans are erected on billboard-sized metal blocks, primed and ready to suck carbon dioxide from the cold Icelandic air. The unusual-looking contraption...

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