Organikos posted: " Carbon capture technology has its skeptics, but it has steadily improved and is closer to proof of concept. Next step, scaling to Texas: The world's biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work? The plant will inject 500,0" Organikos
The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year – but is it just greenwashing from big oil?
Plastic membrane used in the direct air capture system. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Rising out of the arid scrubland of western Texas is the world's largest project yet to remove excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, a quest that has been lauded as essential to help avert climate catastrophe. The project has now been awarded funding from the Biden administration, even as critics attack it as a fossil fuel industry-backed distraction.
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