Tell us exactly what's going on here.

How are these things managing to suck in and extract carbon dioxide from this extremely clean Icelandic air?

My colleague, Polita Clark, is one of the most compelling people to talk to about climate change that I've ever met.

She's been reporting on it for years.

That's her in Iceland recently, looking at a promising new technology.

Those injection wells belong to carve-fix just across the road from the Orca plant.

One bit of this operation is sucking CO2 out of the air and the other is burying it.

Polita is the FT's business columnist on corporate life and climate change.

And she just hosted a season of our sister podcast, Tectonic, all about climate technology.

Over the years, Polita has seen a lot of new

technologies show up, some disappear, and some of them recently have been really promising.

So we actually went to Iceland for the Tectonic series, which was excellent.

That's cool. Very lucky. But imagine a stack of shipping containers on kind of legs, on stilts, in a kind of a semicircle or sort of a sea shape,

just with these kind of big fans and big collecting equipment at the end of, on the other side of them.

And they kind of suck in air and are able to extract the carbon dioxide, which they then,

through another process, kind of pipe underground so that it's permanently stored and

can't get into the atmosphere.

It sounds pretty amazing, right?

Like if carbon dioxide is warming our planet, then pulling it out of the atmosphere is an

incredible solution.

But there's one catch, which is that the technology, like a lot of these new technologies,

isn't actually very useful yet.

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