{"id":12629,"date":"2016-06-17T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12629"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:26:00","slug":"scientists-found-solution-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/scientists-found-solution-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have found a solution to the climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Name the project under which scientists from Iceland have discovered a new way to trap the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground by changing it into rock?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Carbon Print<br \/>\n(b) Carb-Fix<br \/>\n(c) Carbon Tally<br \/>\n(d) Carbon Rock<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>According to the article published by journal \u201cScience\u201d on 10 June 2016, scientists from Iceland have discovered a new way to trap the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground by changing it into rock.<\/li>\n<li>The new way was discovered by Scientists from Columbia University\u2019s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and other institutions as part of a two year\u2019s pilot program called CarbFix project.<\/li>\n<li>In the CarbFix project, scientists pumped CO2 and water, 540 metre underground into volcanic rock at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant.<\/li>\n<li>In this method, CO2 is dissolved with water (termed as carbonation) is pumped into volcanic rocks called basalts<\/li>\n<li>Later, the CO2 solidifies turning into a solid mineral (calcite), which can then be stored. In the research it was found that 95% of the gas was captured and converted in two years.<\/li>\n<li>Britain recently cancelled a major project named \u201ccarbon capture &amp; Stored (CCS)\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/352\/6291\/1312.full\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/352\/6291\/1312.full<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27284192\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27284192<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-figured-out-how-to-turn-co2-into-solid-rock-within-months\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-figured-out-how-to-turn-co2-into-solid-rock-within-months<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/scientists-turn-co2-into-rock-to-combat-climate-change\/article8715026.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/scientists-turn-co2-into-rock-to-combat-climate-change\/article8715026.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Name the project under which scientists from Iceland have discovered a new way to trap the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground by changing it into rock? (a) Carbon Print (b) Carb-Fix (c) Carbon Tally (d) Carbon Rock Ans:(b) Related facts: According to the article published by journal \u201cScience\u201d on 10 June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-12629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}