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Construction of the largest enterprise for the direct removal of carbon dioxide from the air

12.07.2022

The Swiss company Climeworks has begun construction of the world's largest facility to remove carbon dioxide from the air. In September last year, Climeworks in Iceland launched the first Orca (Orca) plant with a capacity of 4 thousand tons of CO2 per year. The new Mammoth plant will be able to annually remove 36 thousand tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and it will start working in 18-24 months.

The company recognizes that millions of tons of carbon dioxide must be removed from the air each year to offset CO2 emissions from human activities. Hundreds of thousands of Kosatka and Mammoth installations will be required to achieve the goal. This is what Climeworks aims to achieve by 2050, expecting a long and difficult road to solving the problem of climate neutrality.

Carbon dioxide extracted from the air is mixed with water and pumped into cavities in the earth - mines and natural reservoirs. This is being done by the contractor represented by CarbFix. It normally takes hundreds or even thousands of years to mineralize (fix) carbon dioxide in natural conditions, but CarbFix has developed technology to speed up the process, which can now be completed within two years.

The Orca and Mammoth units are powered by renewable sources. The killer whale is powered by geothermal sources, and a similar supply of energy to the installations will be implemented at the Mammoth enterprise.

We add that in the United States in May this year, a budget of $ 2 billion was allocated for the creation of national centers for the removal of CO3,5 from the air. It is planned that by the end of this decade, hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere, and by 2050 - millions of tons.

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