Swiss start-up Climeworks AG, which specialises in capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air, has partnered with Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix to develop a plant that sucks out up to 4,000 tons of CO2 per year.
Direct air capture is one of the few technologies extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and is viewed by scientists as vital to limit global warming, blamed for causing more heatwaves, wildfires, floods and rising sea levels.The Orca plant, a reference to the Icelandic word for energy, consists of eight large containers similar in looks to those used in the shipping industry, which employ high-tech filters and fans to extract carbon dioxide.
Direct air capture is still a fledgling and costly technology, but developers hope to drive down prices by scaling up as more companies and consumers look to reduce their carbon footprint. U.S. oil firm Occidental is currently developing the largest direct-air-capture facility, to pull 1 million tonnes per year of carbon dioxide from the open air near some of its Texas oilfields.
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small little country population of 370M in the middle of nowhere has more brains than the G7, 8 or how ever many you want. THANK YOU Iceland for doing something the big guys can't seemed to figure out
Looks like a big plant that requires lots of resources to build and run. But at least it captures the CO2 from only 790 cars annually.🙄
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There will be around two billion of climate refugees soon worldwide. Blame the Industrial Revolution (1750-today) for this hell on Earth! In 1750, it was all about coal and today, it's still about coal.