The way that Occidental Petroleum is building direct air capture plants in order to create social permission to keep on extracting fossil fuels is fundamentally backwards:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/occidental-plans-to-suck-carbon-from-the-airso-it-can-keep-pumping-oil-2990c5a?st=v6kjz0pwpi8562h

The reality is that we need to be cutting fossil fuel use to approximately zero so that this kind of CO2 removal program can make a meaningful difference:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #climate #AirMiners #DirectAirCapture

💡 The ocean is a CO2 sponge that can be used to build more efficient carbon capture. #DirectAIrCapture #ClimateMitigation
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/02/engineers-devise-simple-system-to-capture-co2-from-oceans/

Climeworks' Orca #DirectAirCapture plant in Iceland has a state goal of removing 4000 tonnes of CO₂ every year. Does anyone know what it actually removed in 2022?

Here's an article from April 2022 that said Orca was behind schedule in CO₂ removal because Iceland is cold (who knew?)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2315695-carbon-removal-project-in-iceland-suffers-setback-due-to-harsh-winter/

What's your tech: Scrubbing the Sky to Save the Planet https://whatsyourtech.ca/2022/12/13/scrubbing-the-sky-to-save-the-planet/ #gaming #tech #DirectAirCapture #scrubbingthesky #climatechange #innovation #Trending #Business #Featured

Wir müssen moderne Technologien benutzen, um #CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu entnehmen. Großartig, dass Unternehmen bereits dadurch (#directaircapture) Pflastersteine herstellen. Warten auf Kommissionsvorschlag! Mein Statement 👉https://bit.ly/3OMQ4rJ
@_FriedrichMerz @anjaweisgerber

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/peterliese/status/1597619206542872578

We have to, have to, figure how to remove carbon from the air and ocean. Just growing trees and other carbon sinks, while vital, is not enough.

The burning of fossil fuels has introduced a massive quantity of "new" carbon. It needs to be removed.

#DirectAirCapture requires a lot of energy, but maybe if we make the transition to clean renewables fast enough, we can run these processes and be carbon negative.

"#DirectAirCapture is currently categorized as “technology readiness level” 6 (on a scale of 1 to 9), meaning it’s still in the large-scale and prototype phase, not yet ready for full commercial deployment. But this also means there’s ample opportunity to improve performance and reduce costs through learning from early iterations of the #technology. "
https://www.wri.org/insights/direct-air-capture-resource-considerations-and-costs-carbon-removal

#DirectAirCapture is... chemically complicated. Difficult to imagine an at-home method.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/direct-air-capture-co2-environment-climate/

@redoak I think decaying plant matter actually releases carbon back into the atmosphere.

After some research it looks like the word I was thinking of was #DirectAirCapture.

#Aeroinside - Climeworks' Direct Air Capture Summit 2021 - Inspiration for the future #co2removal #netzero #climatecrisis #directaircapture netzero.aero/2021/09/20/cli… - https://twitter.com/AeroInsideCom/status/1439859563105239042