The Climeworks direct carbon capture plant in Switzerland removes carbon dioxide from ambient air.
Credit: http://www.climeworks.com/
Our world is in a bad situation because of our reckless use of fossil fuels for the last century and one of the few solutions we have to this problem is to capture the extra carbon dioxide we let into the atmosphere. Gathering carbon from the atmosphere which is called carbon capturing was a very expensive practice but as science of carbon capturing made it more viable for companies. This improvement of technology made startups pop out all around the world creating carbon capturing systems but it is a hard thing to do, many create more carbon than they capture, but this carbon capturing plant in Sweden is about to shake the market and make the carbon capturing systems not only common, it will also make them profitable. Climeworks in Switzerland is now capturing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and their 2025 goal is to capture %1 of the carbon in the atmosphere of our planet. It might seem like a small impact but as the numbers of these plants increase, their impact will be seen and appreciated. These plants capture the carbon dioxide into small pellets that can be used in industrial processes of other products, and also can be sold to fizzy drink producers which makes them profitable. Also many countries around the world are taxing the carbon emitting companies and use this money to support startups and plants like this one in Switzerland.
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