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Pulling large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial part of efforts to tackle climate change. A new $1.2 billion investment by the US government in two large-scale facilities could help jumpstart the technology. While there is strong consensus that rapidly reducing carbon emissions will be essential if we want to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, there’s growing recognition that this isn’t happening fast enough to hit present targets. As a result, it seems increasingly likely that we’ll have to find ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere later this century. While various nature-based solutions exist, including reforestation and locking up carbon in soil, direct air capture (DAC) technology that pulls CO2 out of the air could be a crucial tool. The technology is in its infancy though and currently costs a huge amount of money to remove very little carbon from the atmosphere. The US government hopes to change that with the announcement of $1.2 billion in funding to build two plants capable of removing up to a million tons of CO2 a year in Texas and Louisiana. The hope is that building facilities at a much larger scale than shown in previous demonstrations will help prove the feasibility of the technology and cut costs. “Cutting back on our carbon emissions alone won’t reverse the growing impacts of climate change; we also need to remove the CO2 that we’ve already put in the atmosphere,” US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement announcing the investment. The plants will be the first of four direct air capture (DAC) demonstrators due to be built over the next decade using money from last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law. The agency says each facility will eventually remove more than 250 times more CO2 than the largest existing DAC plant, which is based in Iceland. Both will rely on massive arrays of fans to suck air over special materials that selectively remove CO2. The materials are then heated to liberate the captured CO2 in preparation for further processing and storage deep underground (though in the future it may be possible to repurpose the gas into things like cement or sustainable aviation fuels). The Louisiana project is a collaboration between non-profit technology company Batelle and DAC technology providers Climeworks Corporation and Heirloom Carbon Technologies, while the Texas plant will be built by Occidental Petroleum using technology from Carbon Engineering. https://singularityhub.com/2023/08/20/us-invests-1-2-billion-in-carbon-capture-plants-to-suck-tons-of-co2-from-the-air/
US Invests $1.2 Billion in Carbon Capture Plants to Suck Tons of CO2 From the Air
Pulling large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial part of efforts to tackle climate change.
https://singularityhub.com/2023/08/20/us-invests-1-2-billion-in-carbon-capture-plants-to-suck-tons-of-co2-from-the-air/
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A wind driven wildlife in eastern Washington has destroyed at least 185 structures closed a major highway and one person dead The blaze began stort after midday on Friday on the west and continued on Saturday nearly 35sq km which remained the case. https://getsnap.link/jCZazYHC4Mu?share_arg3=com.whatsapp
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Staff shortages,lack of funding,lack of specialist personnel and low pay are major barrier to achieving net zero according to workers in the environment sectorhttps://getsnap.link/5BLGagLU8sh?share_arg3=com.whatsapp
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