World's Largest Carbon Removal Facility Designed to Fight Global Warming Suffers Major Setback After Arctic Blast Freezes Machinery

This is hilarious.

Iceland – The world’s largest carbon removal facility designed to fight global warming suffered a major setback after an Arctic blast froze the machinery and forced the company to make modifications.

The Climeworks “Orca” plant east of Reykjavik, Iceland is now running behind schedule after the machinery froze due to frigid temperatures.

Orca was built in 2021 and “hailed by Iceland’s prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir as a “milestone in the fight against climate change”” – the NewScientist reported.

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Apparently the machines designed to reduce global warming stopped working because it got too cold.

The Carbon Herald reported:

The world’s largest carbon removal plant located to the east of Reykjavik, Iceland, has frozen, putting its operations behind schedule.

Climeworks, the company behind the ambitious plant named ‘Orca’, had set out to capture 4,000 metric tons of CO2 every year directly from the air – a process known as direct air capture or DAC.

By the end of the decade, in fact, the project’s capacity is expected to reach as much as 1 million tons of carbon dioxide.

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However, as it became apparent, the plant was not equipped to handle the harsh weather conditions in Iceland and some of the machinery froze.

Climeworks was thus forced to urgently make modifications, which will inevitably be a bump in the road towards the company’s carbon removal goals in Iceland.

The Orca plant was officially launched in September 2021 and was even praised by the country’s prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir and dubbed a ‘milestone’ in the global battle against the climate crisis.

Furthermore, the DAC facility runs on power from geothermal energy sources, meaning it is as sustainable as can be.