New cutting edge technology uses ocean’s natural ability to absorb CO2

New cutting edge technology and nature based solutions to climate change , Vesta protects coastlines and amplifies the ocean’s natural ability to absorb CO2. The company adds a carbon-removing sand made out of olivine to shorelines, where it reacts with seawater to simultaneously reduce acidity and increase its capacity to durably remove CO2. By mimicking and vastly accelerating Earth’s natural rock weathering process, Vesta’s coastal carbon capture is an ideal solution to help the shoreline-protection industry and ocean-based communities become more climate resilient.

According to Vesta, Coastal Carbon Capture, known in academic research as Coastal Enhanced Weathering, can be categorized as a negative emission technology (NET) that removes and stores CO2 on long timescales (tens to hundreds of thousands of years) (Minx et al. 2018). The process aims to accelerate the natural chemical weathering of the mineral olivine by spreading large amounts of ground olivine-containing rock onto coastlines where it can dissolve in seawater, thereby increasing the rate of CO2 absorption by the ocean (Bach et al. 2019).

When olivine dissolves in water, it drives the below reaction to the right, thus increasing CO2 uptake, increasing pH, and generating alkalinity. As a result, this process has the potential co-benefit of counteracting ocean acidification. Ocean acidification is the process by which increasing atmospheric CO2 dissolves in seawater, which reduces pH (increasing acidity) (upper reaction in diagram below). This reduces the ability of calcifying organisms like corals to grow and produce exoskeletons, or shells. As you can see below, dissolving olivine in water sequesters hydrogen ions into dissolved silicate (H4SiO4), a molecule that can be used by diatoms, an important photosynthesizing algae that fixes carbon dioxide and forms the base of food web.

THE CARBONATE CHEMISTRY REACTION

The carbonate chemistry reaction graphic

This reaction is the foundation of the Long-Term Inorganic Carbon Cycle, which has been occurring for billions of years, stabilizing Earth’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and in turn enabling life to thrive. In fact, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through natural rock weathering consumes ~1 gigaton of CO2 every year (Ciais et al. 2013). Indeed, there are naturally-occurring olivine beaches with diverse ecosystems like Papakōlea Beach in Hawaiʻi, where we are researching the local ecology, ecotoxicology, olivine weathering rates, and secondary mineral formation.

New York based Albanian Minerals CEO Sahit Muja said, “We are at the beginning of a new green technological revolution based on green minerals. This new wave of technological change will have a formidable impact on the global economy. We have find more economical and innovative solutions for carbon sequestration using natural eco friendly green rock. Magnesium olivine is the greatest natural solution to date against climate change, rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, land degradation and desertification. It’s a nature’s way of turning carbon dioxide into nutrition for all biodiversity”.

Sahit Muja said, “To feed near 8 billion people, hundreds of billions of animals, trillions of sea creators and hundreds of trillions of plants, fruit trees, grass, vegetables and others. Albanian Minerals is working intensively to bring to the global markets in land and in the water 2 different magnesium ore mineral combination as one of the greatest future natural supplement combination the world have ever seen.
This marvelous wonder lies at the heart and body of every living thing . Is essential for all living cells and organisms. This is the next big thing in the 21st century, a great building block of new world”.

“A great journey of scientist for 30 years and hundreds of researches worldwide has proven that this nobel mineral Olivine is one of the finest eco-friendly building block on new world capable of removing all world’s CO2 from the atmosphere. Albanian Minerals holds and have discovered hundreds of billions of tons of olivine mineral globally, world’s highest grade magnesium olivine enough and fully capable on capture 100% of all carbon dioxide worldwide. This new technology under development is very cheap, scalable, and permanent”. Mr. Muja stated.

The most precious commodity on earth water, air and land are our most important resources, they are an irreplaceable element of our life, industry and our agriculture. Water and air are at the very heart of our existence.

Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen has launched Aireal, an online library showcasing materials that can capture atmospheric carbon. The fledgling library contains images and descriptions of materials developed by companies and institutes around the world that store carbon in a useful way via a process known as carbon capture and utilisation (CCU).

Materials featured include olivine, an abundant mineral that can absorb its own mass of carbon dioxide when crushed and scattered on the ground in a process known as mineral carbonation.

According to UN, Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to public health globally and accounts for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year,polluted environments take the lives of 1.7 million children under the age of five . Air pollution and climate change are closely linked as all major pollutants have an impact on the climate and most share common sources with greenhouse gases. Improving our air quality will bring health, development, and environmental benefits.

The World Health Organization calls air pollution the “single biggest environmental threat to human health and estimates that 99 percent of the world’s population live in locations that are above WHO thresholds designed to protect human health. Air pollution is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels, forest fires, waste burning, mining, industrial activities and other natural factors.

An estimated seven million people die every year from indoor and outdoor air pollution.

According to the World Health Organization unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene, and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 percent of deaths from diarrheal diseases, which kill 900 children under 5 years old per day according to new UN estimates, or one child every two minutes.

UN-Water, the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater related issues including sanitation, concluded that the major sources of water pollution are from human settlements and industrial and agricultural activities. Approximately 3.5 million people die each year due to inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

Clean water and sanitation is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The United Nations is aiming to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. This goal is not only to improve human health, but also a solution to reduce the gender inequality in some parts of the world. In Africa, 90 percent of the work of gathering water is done by women and girls, who spend up to 6 hours every day fetching water. However, with the same access to productive resources as men, including water, women could increase yields on their farms by 20 to 30 per cent and lift 150 million people out of hunger.

Water is the lifeblood of human beings, and life on Earth. People depend on freshwater for drinking, cooking, cleaning, sanitation, growing food, fishing, generating energy, navigation, recreation and tourism. Safe, sufficient water and healthy aquatic ecosystems are essential for protecting health, achieving food security and ending poverty.

According to WHO in 2022 2.2 billion people have limited access to safe drinking water, and by 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas.

New Solution to the world’s greatest problem:

The Belgian company Sibelco is a global leader in material solutions and has fine the way to clean water from pollution using mineral olivine. BLUEGUARD^®, a patented mineral-based granular material that efficiently removes heavy metals and other pollutants from water. BLUEGUARD^® is currently being used in a pilot project with Aurubis, a leading global provider of non-ferrous metals and one of the largest copper recyclers worldwide.

According to Sibelco Sustainable mineral-based solution has an extremely low carbon footprint.Effectively removes lead, zinc, copper, cadmium, mercury, nickel and cobalt. Made in Åheim, Sibelco’s specialist production plant on the west coast of Norway. Typically achieves metal binding efficiency of 5-15kg per ton of filter material. Minimum 15 min wastewater loading rate.

BLUEGUARD® is made from magnesium olivine one of the most important minerals being considered against CO2 and water pollutions. Sibelco is global power on Olivine mining.

According to Sahit Muja CEO of the Albanian Minerals , Magnesium Olivine is one of the finest eco-friendly building block on new world capable of removing 1 trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.

“Magnesium olivine is the greatest natural solution to date against climate change, rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, land degradation and desertification. It’s a nature’s way of turning carbon dioxide into nutrition for all biodiversity” . Sahit Muja said.