Tag: ccs
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Climeworks’ Direct Air Capture Summit 2021 – Inspiration for the future
This article is part of our series on carbon capture and storage technologies. On September 14th and 15th, Swiss carbon capture company Climeworks organized the second Direct Air Capture Summit as a hybrid event with an initial streamed kick-off event on Tuesday and a full afternoon conference on Wednesday, both live streamed and for in-person…
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Climeworks launches the largest CO2-scrubbing plant ever built
The swiss Company Climeworks launched the largest direct air capture (DAC) plant ever built. Orca, previously featured in our carbon capture series her on NetZero.aero, is able to scrub 4000 tons of CO2 per year. On September 8th 2021, Climeworks opened the Orca plant on Iceland at Hellisheidi for production. The plant uses renewable power…
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Climeworks – Carbon capture series
This post is part of our carbon capture series. Previous posts: Charm Industrial. Mission The swiss company Climeworks is developing a direct air capture method in order to filter out CO2 from the air. Their vision is to remove 1% of carbon dioxide and inspire Founders The two founders Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph Gebald met…
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Carbon capture and storage series: Charm Industrial
A multitude of carbon offsetting projects and services are on the market, ready take compensation for offsetting CO2 output. However, with some types of offsetting, for example planting trees, it takes multiple years or even decades until the promised amount of CO2 is really removed from the air while the emissions have occurred in the…