Sucking carbon dioxide from air

With its plenty of formation outcome, Carbon dioxide, the ultimate end product of many man-made and natural processes have become a great pollution hazard in the present times.

Various technological methods/techniques are being developed not only to slash/control the emission of carbon dioxide but also to make its use from its ever-increasing atmospheric concentration through direct-air capture of atmospheric carbon. The projects have their importance as many climate experts warn that current measures to reduce emissions-such as adopting renewable energy and electrifying transportation-are no longer sufficient to avert catastrophe. To limit global warming to 1.5 °C, the world must also use “negative-emission technologies,” according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s2018 report. Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels reached 33 billion metric tons in 2019.

A facility at west Texas (USA) with rows of giant fans spread across a flat, arid field will pull carbon dioxide from the air and then pump it deep underground. When completed, the project could capture 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, doing the air-scrubbing work of some 40 million trees.