Imagine you're in Switzerland, and you want to get rid of your CO2 emissions. How about. . . transporting them 3,000 kilometers to Iceland for geological storage? 
In 2023, I interviewed Marco Mazzotti, a scientist, and one of the most prestigious ones when it comes to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Mazzotti and his team at ETH Zürich had looked at Switzerland's emissions, particularly ones that are difficult to avoid otherwise - like cement kilns.
And they started the project DemoUpCARMA. CO2 from a biogas plant is put into containers and transported to a storage site operated by Carbfix, an Icelandic company that has developed mineralization technology for CO2 storage. Carbfix sees storing CO2 emissions from abroad as a future business model. A similar project is Northern Lights in Norway. I wrote that article in 2023 for the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online.
I felt it was still relevant, so I re-published it as my latest newsletter. Since 2023, some of the same researchers have also started a project to test CO2 storage in Switzerland. Citizens of Zürich approved a project to store CO2 emissions from a sewer sludge waste incinerator. If things go as planned, those will be stored in the Grønsand project in Denmark and in old concrete by the company Neustark. #ccs #co2 #industrydecarbonization https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/shipping-carbon-emissions-from-switzerland-to-iceland.html
