Industrial-scale carbon-capture test facility begins operations
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029278
MIT Technology Review : On 9 October in Squamish, British Columbia, a company called Carbon Engineering opened a facility to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbon-neutral fuel. Currently, the facility uses already-existing technologies to extract CO2 gas from the air at the rate of about one ton per day. In about one year, an electrolyzer will be added to split water to obtain hydrogen that will then be combined with the CO2 to make hydrocarbon fuels. David Keith of Harvard University, who is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, says the process will not likely have a significant impact on the level of CO2 present in the atmosphere, so the facility shouldn’t be viewed as a solution for reducing greenhouse gas levels. The primary use of the facility will be producing vehicle fuel that isn’t sourced from petroleum oil.
