Direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO2) needs to be applied in the right context to work commercially – and one suitable application that’s taking shape right now lies in certain kinds of wastewater treatment.
That’s the message of Luke Shors, President of the DAC-and-water business Capture6, who was interviewed by Christian Annesley for the forthcoming August issue of gasworld US magazine, which is out shortly.
“However well other elements of the global Net Zero project work out, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified that we need gigatons of CO2 removal from the air by 2050,” said Shors.
“Given this, the question becomes how to do that most effectively,” he said. “We are orders of magnitude off that kind of scale today. While there will be technology and efficiency gains, the challenge to embed progress is real and pressing.”
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