{"id":1210081,"date":"2023-12-09T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1210081"},"modified":"2023-12-09T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:07:07","slug":"the-quest-to-turn-basalt-dust-into-a-viable-climate-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1210081","title":{"rendered":"The quest to turn basalt dust into a viable climate solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Basalt-Dust-Stockpile-800x439-1.jpg\" alt=\"The quest to turn basalt dust into a viable climate solution\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Basalt-Dust-Stockpile.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1230\" data-width=\"2240\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/rock-dust-soak-up-carbon-emissions-climate-experiment\/\">Lithos Carbon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In that way it\u2019s like limestone, which farmers often use to improve their soil. It\u2019s a little more finicky to apply, and certainly less familiar. But basalt also comes with an important side benefit: It can naturally capture carbon from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Yap\u2019s pitch is part of a decades-long effort to scale up that natural weathering process and prove that it can lock carbon away for long enough to make a different to the climate. \u201cThe bottleneck is getting farmers to want to do this,\u201d Yap says.<\/p>\n<p \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989752#p3\">Read 19 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989752&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The quest to turn basalt dust into a viable climate solution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Lithos Carbon) Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1210081\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1210081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}