B.C. company uses huge fans to suck carbon from air, make fuel

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A B.C. company that developed massive fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air so it can be reused as fuel will open a plant in Texas in 2023.

B.C. company Carbon Engineering developed massive fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air so it can be reused as fuel will open a plant in Texas in 2023. Published Sunday, September 8, 2019 10:00PM EDT

“We’re using a material we’ve treated as waste for years as something that we can reuse,” said engineer Jenny McCahill.of carbon has been discussed for years, it recently gained more momentum when the United Nations in 2018 labeled it a necessity to end global warming. Concepts like Carbon Engineering’s fans are all about damage control now, said Simon Fraser University professor Mark Jaccard.

 

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Awesome Innovation. A far better strategy than simply taxing people.

What is the carbon cost to run this machine What is powering it?

Sounds very fishy... It uses fuel to produce fuel that will be used to.produce more fuel to ....

Off the charts stupid. Who's funding this crap ? You know tree live on CO2 ?

Yup, BC sucks

Suck money

Costs $150/tonne of CO2 removed....ya...very cost effective.

Wow! this technology should definitely be promoted!! 👍

Trees, dammit. Trees do this. They exchange CO2 for Oxygen which is fuel and wood which is also fuel and some trees even make maple syrup dammit people plant trees it isn't rocket science. Shel Silverstein wrote a book about this were you not paying attention?

Why Texas? Canadian operated Canadian owned. Put back into Canadian economy not America.

Hope this effective and viable.

At what cost to the environment?

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