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California climate technology company Heirloom on Thursday unveiled what it says is the first U.S. commercial direct air capture (DAC) plant to suck planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air, a milestone in the effort to scale up nascent carbon removal technologies and hit global climate goals.
Scientists
expect the world will need to remove billions of tons of carbon-dioxide
from the air annually. Direct air capture such as that used by Heirloom
can secure the CO2, but it is not yet clear whether it can do so at a
price that makes the technology practical. ---More...
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