Climeworks
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Press ReleasesClimeworks Breaks Ground on New Carbon Capture Facility in Iceland
Zurich, Switzerland (June 28, 2022) – The groundbreaking of Climeworks’ newest and largest direct air capture and storage plant represents a demonstrable step in the company’s ambitious scale-up plan: multi-megaton capacity by 2030, on track to deliver gigaton capacity by 2050. In September 2021, Climeworks began operations of Orca, its first-of-a-kind plant, kick-starting the supply availability […]
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Carbon CaptureTest of Carbon Capture Technology Underway at Iceland Geothermal Plant
The Swiss company Climeworks in October said it had begun another round of testing for a direct air capture (DAC) facility at a 300-MW geothermal power plant in Hellisheidi, Iceland. Climeworks, which is
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Climeworks starts plant in Iceland and thereby creates the world’s first carbon removal solution through direct air capture
-The pilot plant is part of the CarbFix2 project which stores the air-captured carbon dioxide safely and permanently in basalt – Climeworks demonstrates a highly-scalable carbon removal technology which is likely to be a key theme at COP 23 Swiss cleantech company Climeworks has partnered with Reykjavik Energy to combine direct air capture (DAC) technology […]
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EnvironmentalSwiss Company Aims to Build Commercial Scale Direct Air Carbon Capture Plant
The ETH spin-off company Climeworks AG has announced plans to construct and operate an industrial scale CO2 capture plant to be operational by mid-2016. The Oct. 21 announcement said the plant in Hinwil (Canton of Zurich, Switzerland) “has the capacity to capture 900 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year.” For comparison, The Carbon […]