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A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
World’s First Carbon Capture Facility to Be Operational by Early 2025
Madeleine Muzdakismymodernmet.com
Carbon dioxide removal offers a way to change the math. Extract large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and “negative emissions” could, conceivably, balance out the positive variety. It might even be feasible to cross the threshold of catastrophe and then suck enough carbon out of the…
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Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
landscape restoration, regenerative ag, reforestation, biochar and kelp beds, direct air capture and storage,
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“At the beginning of the cycle, the equipment sucks in air,” she went on. “The CO2 sticks to specific chemicals inside the capture unit. We heat up the chemicals and that releases the CO2.” This CO2—the Climeworks CO2—is then added to the club-soda mixture from the power plant as it makes its way to the injection site. Even without any help, most o
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Veritree is in its early days, but it hopes to become “an operating system for the restoration economy,” in Emsley’s words. An “Initial Tree Offering” was used to raise money for a “First Edition Forest,” which features trees in Madagascar, Indonesia, Nepal, Kenya, Senegal, and Haiti. The appeal for corporations hoping to make good on their net-zer... See more