by A simple solution to make modern life more sustainable has hidden under our feet all the time – and bicycles, cars and tribes.
A carbon removal company based in North Carolina collected rock dust from the construction of streets, runways and roofs and used the nutrient-rich material to capture carbon and to make agriculture more efficient.
The rocks, such limestone and basalt – as well as volcanic ash – are in nature, similar to other forms of natural carbon intake, such as. B. trees in forests and seatang under water.
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In basalt shredded silicate minerals can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -a solution called Enhanced rocks that Lithos used to convert arable land into carbon ease centers.
In the past, the stone dust would be thrown away and sent to landfill, but the researchers have discovered that it is actually a carbon pool and significantly increases the harvest yields. Lithos Carbon has recorded up to 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide with the basalt Dust per year, Mary Yap, CEO from Lithos Carbon, told ABC News.
“It’s not a rocket science,” said Yap. “It’s rock science.”
Finding natural solutions to remove carbon from the atmosphere can compensate for the dozens of billions of emissions that are released every year in the atmosphere. In 2024, 37.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide worldwide were outline worldwide – compared to 11 billion tons, which were published annually in the 1960s, according to the global carbon budget.
The rocks are ground into a fine dust to accelerate the carbon covering process. A large stone bone would take thousands of years to conquer the same amount of carbon, said Yap.
“Our task is to hire what nature could do over time,” said Yap.
The dust is then distributed at a depth of 1 millimeter over millions of times. When the material spreads out, data from the tractor cabin is sent to Lithos, which collects soil samples to ensure that their efforts work.
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The goal of Lithos Carbon is to capture another billion tons of carbon in the next decade by using the matter from the Sunrock mine just outside of Durham, North Carolina, with the help of waste.
The miners have presented the waste in the past ten years since they have found that the stone dust actually leads Klimagold IST-what a 125-foot mountain material. Lithos Carbon is now mapping the rock dust through the truck load to nearby farms.
Rick Bennett, a lifelong farmer in Butner, North Carolina, has sprayed the rock dust as a fertilizer in its fields and is now convinced that some things are not too good to be true, he told ABC News.
“The pH value of the soil and the increase in the harvest yields … Every person also benefits on the planet – that she cleans the air at the same time,” said Bennett.
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Lithos advertises an uncomplicated and natural solution for the climate crisis and the decarbonizing industry.
“We only take the things that people are already doing – stones, farms, tractors, spreading makers, science – and then bring everything together,” said Yap. “And hopefully something can also run from the globe.”
The ABC News climate unit contributed to this report.
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