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Machines could suck carbon dioxide out of the air

By Hicbd
Sat Sep 18 2021 10:32 am

"Carbon Engineering's plant in Squamish is designed as a testbed for different technologies. But the firm is drawing up blueprints for a much larger plant in the oil fields of west Texas, which would fix 1 million tonnes of CO2 annually. 'Once one is done, it's a cookie cutter model, you simply build replicas of that plant,' says Oldham. Yet he admits the scale of the task ahead is dizzying. 'We need to pull 800 gigatonnes out of the atmosphere. It's not going to happen overnight.'"

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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210310-the-trillion-dollar-plan-to-capture-co2
https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-time-for-an-emergency-rollout-of-carbon-eating-machines/

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Carbon Emissions / Capture Climate Change / Global Warming Impact / Philanthropy / Social Good Investing Capital Climate Engineering / Geoengineering

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