It's like magic: The plant sucks the air from the sky into large containers, where the carbon is removed by passing the air through filters. Then -- presto -- the carbon is turned into a liquid and pumped underground where it is no longer harmful.
It's a technology that needs to be refined if the world's carbon balance is ever to reach net zero. But currently the technology is removing but a miniscule amount of carbon. Keep polishing the direct air carbon capture plants, but don't quit developing more wind farms, and solar farms, and geothermal plants. Direct air carbon capture isn't going to reach a point where it brings us down to net zero on anywhere near the time frame that is necessary.
(Index -- Climate change info)
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