Last October, Swiss company Climeworks announced its participation in the CarbFix project in Iceland, where its DAC technology is capturing CO2 to be mineralised and permanently stored underground. This October, the project-planning phase for expanding the DACS capacity will begin.
“I think there is little as challenging as the biggest problem humanity has ever faced, which is climate change.”
Christoph Gebald, co-founder of Climeworks
The capture and long-term storage of atmospheric CO2 will be necessary if we are to protect humanity against the consequences of global warming. All scenarios for achieving the 1.5°C goal require ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ – i.e. the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere through long-term sequestration.
The CarbFix consortium, including Icelandic utility Reykjavik Energy and Climeworks, has successfully tested the Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACS) technology in Iceland. This will give everyone the opportunity to have their emissions removed from the atmosphere via Direct Air Capture, for the first time in the world.
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