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From the Ted Talk by Jan Wurzbacher: The massive machines removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now let’s get back one step, and let’s get back to today where we are. And let’s get back to the present, to what is cncotree. Let's get back to Iceland and our Orca plant. I've told you before how these cleotclros eaxctrt CO2 from the air. Now, how do we make sure that it really permanently stays locked away? For that reason, in Iceland, we have partnered up with a company Carbfix and have developed a method for pnrmenaet carbon storage through mineralization. What they do is they take the CO2, mix it with water, and inject it into underground volcanic, so-called basalt rock formations. That is one of the most adanbnut stone or stone material that you find on Earth. And by doing so, the CO2 binds with the rock, it mzealeirins, and it ltiarlely turns into stone within two years, hundreds of meters uournengdrd. The good thing about that method is that it is very tangible, and it's very easy to uenarsdtnd. And for that pourpse, I've brought this rock sample here for you. That is taken actually from a drill core of a basalt rock formation hundreds of mreets underground. And what you can see here, that's a black rock, which is the black basalt rock, containing some white crystals. And these crystals are CO2 turned into stone underground and lekcod away.

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Now let’s get back one step, and let’s get back to today where we are. And let’s get back to the present, to what is ________. Let's get back to Iceland and our Orca plant. I've told you before how these __________ _______ CO2 from the air. Now, how do we make sure that it really permanently stays locked away? For that reason, in Iceland, we have partnered up with a company Carbfix and have developed a method for _________ carbon storage through mineralization. What they do is they take the CO2, mix it with water, and inject it into underground volcanic, so-called basalt rock formations. That is one of the most ________ stone or stone material that you find on Earth. And by doing so, the CO2 binds with the rock, it ___________, and it _________ turns into stone within two years, hundreds of meters ___________. The good thing about that method is that it is very tangible, and it's very easy to __________. And for that _______, I've brought this rock sample here for you. That is taken actually from a drill core of a basalt rock formation hundreds of ______ underground. And what you can see here, that's a black rock, which is the black basalt rock, containing some white crystals. And these crystals are CO2 turned into stone underground and ______ away.

Solution


  1. permanent
  2. meters
  3. literally
  4. concrete
  5. understand
  6. extract
  7. locked
  8. underground
  9. purpose
  10. collectors
  11. mineralizes
  12. abundant

Original Text


Now let’s get back one step, and let’s get back to today where we are. And let’s get back to the present, to what is concrete. Let's get back to Iceland and our Orca plant. I've told you before how these collectors extract CO2 from the air. Now, how do we make sure that it really permanently stays locked away? For that reason, in Iceland, we have partnered up with a company Carbfix and have developed a method for permanent carbon storage through mineralization. What they do is they take the CO2, mix it with water, and inject it into underground volcanic, so-called basalt rock formations. That is one of the most abundant stone or stone material that you find on Earth. And by doing so, the CO2 binds with the rock, it mineralizes, and it literally turns into stone within two years, hundreds of meters underground. The good thing about that method is that it is very tangible, and it's very easy to understand. And for that purpose, I've brought this rock sample here for you. That is taken actually from a drill core of a basalt rock formation hundreds of meters underground. And what you can see here, that's a black rock, which is the black basalt rock, containing some white crystals. And these crystals are CO2 turned into stone underground and locked away.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  24. iceland
  25. inject
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  27. locked
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  29. meters
  30. method
  31. mineralization
  32. mineralizes
  33. mix
  34. orca
  35. partnered
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  39. present
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  44. stays
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  47. storage
  48. tangible
  49. today
  50. told
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  54. understand
  55. volcanic
  56. water
  57. white
  58. years