The roughly two-hectare facility, still under construction, is hosting what could be called a carbon removal Olympics. It will pilot eight different versions of a similar technology using various machines that will suck in air, remove the carbon dioxide and send it to a central plant where it will be compressed and liquified for storage deep underground.
The winner of this initiative wouldn’t get a medal on a podium. Instead, Deep Sky, the Montreal-based project developer behind it, plans to take the best versions of the direct air capture technology that prove most effective in Canada’s climate and deploy them on a commercial scale all over the country.
That’s just using solar power with extra steps.
Yeah, investing in batteries on the grid would definitely be a better use of capital.
The extra step of cleaning up CO2 emissions from the past is a rather useful one
I don’t disagree, but it is magnitudes of order less effective than reducing pur current spew of greenhouse gasses and only deals with one specific GHG (for example, does nothing for methane release)