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Greenhouse Gases

Carbon Engineering and Occidental Petroleum to mass-produce direct-air CO2 capture plants

by Craig Bettenhausen
June 11, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 21

 

The direct-air-capture (DAC) firm Carbon Engineering (CE) and an Occidental Petroleum subsidiary, 1PointFive, plan to standardize, modularize, and mass-produce DAC plants as a way to quickly scale up CE’s solvent-based, calcium-loop DAC technology. The firms say that with current incentives and carbon credit markets, they could deploy as many as 70 DAC facilities, each with a capacity to capture and store 1 million metric tons of CO2 annually, by 2035.

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