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The problem with pulling carbon out of the sky was always what to do with it. You pump the gas underground. You cross your fingers. You hope it never leaks. Iceland stopped hoping. They already run their grid entirely on geothermal and hydropower, heating 90% of their buildings directly from the earth. But this is the detail that matters. Engineers in Reykjavik didn’t just build the world’s largest carbon capture plants. They figured out how to mix the captured CO₂ with water, inject it deep into basalt rock, and let it mineralize. Within two years, the gas literally becomes solid stone. Permanent. Unleakable. We have reached a point where cutting emissions alone is no longer enough to fix the climate. We have to pull the old carbon back out. Iceland is proving the physics work. Now it is just a question of scale.