Catching the CO2
The direct air capture (DAC) plant is capable of removing 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from ambient air annually.
This is then supplied as a raw material to customers in different markets, including to a nearby vegetable farm, where it is used as fertiliser. The CO2 can also be used to make carbonated drinks and carbon-neutral fuels.
By using the filtered C02, Climeworks' says its customers can reduce their overall emissions as well as lowering their dependence on fossil fuels. Its factory represents the first commercial carbon-capture operation.
Climeworks says its plant is "a historic step for negative emissions technology – earmarked by the Paris climate agreement as being vital in the quest to limit a global temperature rise of two degrees Celsius".
The company was founded by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, who first came up with the idea for the DAC plant in 2008 after visiting the greenhouses of agricultural enterprise Gebrüder Meier Primanatura AG in Hinwil, Switzerland. They were both students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) at the time.
The farm was ordering tanks of CO2 that were delivered by a truck that had to cover large distances. The duo had the idea to filter CO2 directly from ambient air and sell it on to Gebrüder Meier as a raw material delivered via gas pipeline.
"We presented our concept and concluded a memorandum regarding the possibility of purchase, in case we managed to build the corresponding plant," Gebald recalled. The first business plan was then developed for a venture challenge course at the university.
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Climeworks says its plant is "a historic step for negative emissions technology – earmarked by the Paris climate agreement as being vital in the quest to limit a global temperature rise of two degrees Celsius".
The company was founded by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, who first came up with the idea for the DAC plant in 2008 after visiting the greenhouses of agricultural enterprise Gebrüder Meier Primanatura AG in Hinwil, Switzerland. They were both students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) at the time.
The farm was ordering tanks of CO2 that were delivered by a truck that had to cover large distances. The duo had the idea to filter CO2 directly from ambient air and sell it on to Gebrüder Meier as a raw material delivered via gas pipeline.
"We presented our concept and concluded a memorandum regarding the possibility of purchase, in case we managed to build the corresponding plant," Gebald recalled. The first business plan was then developed for a venture challenge course at the university.
to be continued......
RESPECT THE NATURE
ENJOY THE NATURE..
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