Carbon Collect ‘tree’: the company aims to build a ‘forest’ to draw CO2 out of the air, and has raised more than €10 million in funding to date
Former directors of Carbon Collect have begun a legal battle for control of the company that aims to mass-produce “mechanical trees” which are “a thousand times” more efficient than actual trees at removing CO2 from the air. Carbon Collect was co-founded by John McKeon, an Irish oil industry executive, and Pól Ó Móráin, an Irish entrepreneur, in 2018. To date, it has raised more than €10 million from a number of...