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The ¡°world¡¯s largest¡± plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on Wednesday.
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Key take-aways
Climeworks starts operations of its to-date largest direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) plant, Mammoth, in Iceland. It is the second commercial DAC+S facility of Climeworks and is about ten times bigger than its predecessor plant, Orca.
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The plant is designed for a nameplate capture capacity of up to 36,000 tons of CO©ü per year once in full swing by filtering CO©ü from the air and storing it permanently underground. The plant has successfully started to capture its first CO©ü, with twelve of its total 72 collector containers installed onsite.
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Beyond Iceland, Climeworks is developing multiple megaton hubs in the U.S. with operational and testing experience derived from its now two commercial plants in Iceland.
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Climeworks plans to transport the carbon underground where it will be naturally transformed into stone, locking up the carbon permanently.
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Direct air capture, or DAC, is a technology designed to suck in air and strip out the carbon using chemicals. The carbon can then be injected deep beneath the ground, reused or transformed into solid products.
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The whole operation will be powered by Iceland¡¯s abundant, clean geothermal energy.
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Once the CO©ü is released from the filters, storage partner Carbfix transports the CO©ü underground, where it reacts with basaltic rock through a natural process, which transforms into stone, and remains permanently stored.
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Mammoth will be able to pull 36,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere a year at full capacity, according to Climeworks. That¡¯s equivalent to taking around 7,800 gas-powered cars off the road for a year.
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Mammoth, in the meantime, is still a work in progress. Just 12 modular containers have been installed at Mammoth for now, and Climeworks says it plans to install 60 more to complete construction this year.
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