We recently wrote about a Belgian company converting climate change related byproducts into ethanol that is sold on as fuel. Switzerland-based Climeworks is going a step further by capturing CO2 from the air for commercial uses. Climeworks have developed a filter that binds CO2 by direct air capture (DAC). The CO2 remains bound to the filter until low heat is applied, providing an effective storage solution. The stored CO2 can then be used to provide…
World’s first industrial-scale carbon capture
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