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Holding Tight (​Ž​aro​š​ice oil field, Czech Republic)

from Future Landscapes by fyield

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Technology as a promise of the permanency of our habits
Oil fields in South Moravia aren’t noticeable at first sight and don’t seem to have much in common with the idea of a landscape of the future. On the surface, the extraction facilities are neither large nor complex. When the oil well is depleted, they are simply hauled away, the concrete foundations bulldozed and then left to overgrow. It won’t take long. New deposits are found sporadically and extraction is becoming more and more difficult.

Pumpjacks jutting out from the idyllic Moravian vineyards will soon become a relic of the fossil past. The one in Žarošice, however, tells a new story set in the depths below. The development of the SPICER technology is underway here, which aims to return underground what was created by burning the extracted raw material. It's supposed to create a burial ground for carbon dioxide.

CO2 is converted to a supercritical state, when its state changes from gaseous to liquid. Injection to a depth of over 800 metres ensures that it remains in this state and does not convert back to gas. Liquefaction causes it to lose most of its volume. A gas with a volume of 1 000 m3 becomes 2.7 m3 of liquid. Burying the CO2 greenhouse gas, which causes global warming, would enable us to clean emissions from large power stations, heating plants and industrial plants.

This may seem like the ideal solution. We get rid of the unwanted gas and the earth’s empty bowels are given new content and meaning. However, such technologies allow us to continue with the existing industrial production and energy systems without any substantial changes. Paradoxically, they can help to extend the use of coal and fossil-fuel energy. They can help preserve the old world that caused the global climate crisis for longer.

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Peaceful & quiet
On the surface
Aggressive and violent
Under the ground

We’re holding tight to our comfort

We measure
everything by the amount of comfort
In our lives

Fruitful & beautiful
On the surface
Ugly and violent
Deep under the ground

We’re holding tight to our comfort
We measure
everything by the amount of comfort
In our lives

We’re burying our bad habits
We’re burying our breath
We’re burying our sins
Burying deep within.

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from Future Landscapes, released October 31, 2022

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fyield Prague, Czechia

In their new music project Václav Havelka, Pan Thorarensen and Kryštof Kříček fuse music composed of sounds from selected natural and industrial locations in the Czech and Icelandic landscapes with electronics, beats and music instruments.

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