Where are peridotite deposits worldwide?
Peridotite is abundant on all continents, except maybe Antarctica. There are plenty of places with enough cubic kilometers of peridotite to potentially have a huge impact on the CO2 budget of the Earth. In the U.S., peridotite in significant quantities is mostly in California, Oregon, Washington, and maybe Montana. What is the CO2 absorption potential worldwide? Per cubic kilometer of rock per year, it is an absurdly large number. If you could carbonate every molecule of magnesium in the peridotite in Oman alone it would be able to take up the amount of CO2 currently released in a year by humans, every year for one-thousand years. Limits on achieving this potential have to due with practical concerns such as cost. Could you lay out a possible scenario for the implementation of this technology? Imagine you were in Oman. First, the pilot study would need to be successful. Second, maybe oil companies in the country would want to negate their carbon footprint. They would invest in a projec
