The first commercial carbon storage facility in the world begins operations, and carbon dioxide injecting the northern sea bottom

Oslo The Northern Lights Union, which runs the site on Monday, said the world’s first commercial service that provides carbon storage off the coast of Norway has carried out the opening carbon dioxide injection at the bottom of the Northern Sea.

The Northern Lights project, which is led by oil giants, Shell, Schill, and Totalenergies, includes the transport and burial of the carbon dioxide captured in Smokestacks throughout Europe. The goal is to prevent emissions in the air, thus helping to stop climate change.

“We have now achieved and stored the first carbon dioxide safely in the tank,” said Tim Hein, Managing Director of Northern Lights. “Our ships, our facilities, and our wells are now working.”

In concrete terms, after picking up carbon dioxide, it is dyed and transported by the ship to the Oygarden station near Bergen on the western coast of Norway.

Then it is transferred to large tanks before injection through a 68 -mile pipeline at the sea floor, at a depth of about 1.6 miles, for permanent storage.

Carbon capture and store it The CCS technology as a climate tool has been listed by the United Nations International Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), especially to reduce the CO2 imprint of industries such as cement and steel that is difficult to remove carbon.

The first carbon dioxide injection was in the northern geological tank from the Hydelberg materials factory in Germany in Brevik, southeast Norway.

But CCS technology is complex, controversial and expensive.

Without financial assistance, it is currently profitable to buy industries “pollution permits” in the European carbon market instead of paying in exchange for capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

The northern lights have so far signed three commercial decades in Europe. One with the Yara Factory of Ammonia in the Netherlands, another with two biomedical ocean plants in Ortid in Denmark, and the third with the thermal power plant in Stockholm, Sweden.

To a large extent, its financing by the Norwegian state, Northern Lights has an annual storage capacity of 1.7 million tons, which is expected to rise to 5.5 million tons by the end of the contract.

While efforts, such as the northern lights, focus on capturing carbon directly from the most suitable sources-artificial smoke chimneys-there were also efforts to capture gas from the surrounding air, which is a more controversial methodology.

Mark Jacobson, Professor of Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, told CBS News earlier this year that he was doubtful in motivations and the effectiveness of both types of carbon capture, and said frankly that “direct air capture is not a real solution. We have no time to waste with this meaningless technology.”

Jacobson believes that direct air capture, in particular, is BoondogGle, and more effort should focus on switching to clean energy sources.

Currently, the United States gets about 60 % of the electricity of fossil fuels.

“You have to think about who suggests this technology,” said Jacobson. “Who will benefit from carbon capture and direct air capture? They are fossil fuel companies.”

“They only say,” Jacobson told CBS News: “They just say,” Well, we extract the most carbon dioxide from which we are emitting, “Jacobson told CBS News. Therefore, we must allow us to continue pollution and continue mining, ”adding that his position did not make him famous among many sector in the energy sector.

Oh, yes, people hate me, people hate me, and people hate me ethanol, and people hate me, and they hate me coal. They do that, because I say the truth, “he said. “We do not need any of these techniques.”