DAC Direct Air Capture

[weltweit]

Engineering begins on UK Direct Air Capture facility

Storegga and Carbon Engineering have begun engineering and design of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) facility in Scotland, aiming to be operational by 2026.

www.theengineer.co.uk

This is a project of DAC in Scotland, encouraging and a signpost potentially for the future.

There is another project in Europe of a greater capacity I am trying to find the article atm.

 

[lazythursday]

Even if this works, and scales up, it's never going to capture more than a small percentage of current emissions. A distraction from the basic need to stop burning fossil fuels.

 

[weltweit]

Even if this works, and scales up, it's never going to capture more than a small percentage of current emissions. A distraction from the basic need to stop burning fossil fuels.

It doesn't make sense unless also emissions are reduced.

No point in putting it up there only to take a small amount of it out.

 

[weltweit]

The Swiss company hoping to capture 1% of global CO2 emissions by 2025 - Carbon Brief

On the roof of a waste incinerator outside Zurich, the Swiss firm Climeworks has built...

www.carbonbrief.org

 

[xenon]

weltweit
Were you listening to Radio4 about half hour ago? They had a guy on from Climeworks talking about their system.

High-quality carbon removal company

High-quality carbon removal company for your climate strategy. Join the world's top businesses and enable the scale-up of the carbon removal industry.

climeworks.com

 

[xenon]

This isn't a solution for now. This is see if the tech can work and is scalable. Not instead of reducing emissions.

 

[weltweit]

weltweit
Were you listening to Radio4 about half hour ago? They had a guy on from Climeworks talking about their system.

No, I missed that, was it interesting?

I was reading about a project in The Engineer last week but I can't find it now.

 

[weltweit]

This isn't a solution for now. This is see if the tech can work and is scalable. Not instead of reducing emissions.

If we stop all emissions right now (which is impossible obviously) there would still be a need to take carbon out of the atmosphere to reverse the greenhouse gas build up we already made and this is where these technologies would come in.

 

[Chemical needs]

There's this one: in Iceland

 

[xenon]

No, I missed that, was it interesting?

I was reading about a project in The Engineer last week but I can't find it now.

It was. They couldn't go in depth, only half hour thing on the technology in general. Bottom line is it's no magic solution and the cost of scaling up to anything that will make a real difference is vastly more than cutting emissions now. However, I think these projects and the science should be developed. We're gonna need to fight this from every angle.
It's this show:

BBC Radio 4 - 39 Ways to Save the Planet

Tom Heap and Dr Tamsin Edwards uncover fresh ways to save the planet from climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[xenon]

If we stop all emissions right now (which is impossible obviously) there would still be a need to take carbon out of the atmosphere to reverse the greenhouse gas build up we already made and this is where these technologies would come in.

I don't disagree. But if it draws funding away from development of renewable energy, general better management, protection for habitats, it could do more harm than good. That's the stuff we need to do at scale, right now.