{"id":1632,"date":"2021-09-30T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/direct-air-capture-worlds-largest-facility-goes-into-operation\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T10:59:17","slug":"direct-air-capture-worlds-largest-facility-goes-into-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/direct-air-capture-worlds-largest-facility-goes-into-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Air Capture \u2013 World\u2019s largest facility goes into operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Every year, the Swiss start-up Climeworks wants to suck up to 4,000 tonnes of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0directly from the air and deposit it underground. Orca, as the plant is called, went into operation on Iceland at the beginning of September. Orca consists of eight large containers that suck in CO2<\/sub>\u00a0with the help of fans and filter it out. Climeworks\u2019 plants are powered by renewable energy. Icelandic carbon storage company Carbfix mixes the captured CO2<\/sub>\u00a0with water and pumps it underground. There, the mixture reacts with basalt rock and mineralises into solid carbonate in a few years. The quantities of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0that Orca captures are still relatively small. The company\u2019s goal is to increase them significantly. A major problem with the method is its high cost. They are said to be in the range of several hundred dollars per tonne of CO2<\/sub>. In the long run, however, the price is supposed to drop to under 100 dollars.<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/div> \n<\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, the Swiss start-up Climeworks wants to suck up to 4,000 tonnes of CO2\u00a0directly from the air and deposit it underground. Orca, as the plant is called, went into operation on Iceland at the beginning of September. Orca consists of eight large containers that suck in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artikel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}