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    World’s 1st carbon removal facility to capture 30,000 tons of CO2 over decade | Also Canada’s first commercial direct air capture project, Deep Sky’s carbon removal innovations facility aims to capture 3,000 tons of CO2 per year.
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    World’s 1st carbon removal facility to capture 30,000 tons of CO2 over decade | Also Canada’s first commercial direct air capture project, Deep Sky’s carbon removal innovations facility aims to capture 3,000 tons of CO2 per year.


    World’s 1st carbon removal facility to capture 30,000 tons of CO2 over decade | Also Canada’s first commercial direct air capture project, Deep Sky’s carbon removal innovations facility aims to capture 3,000 tons of CO2 per year.

    https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-1st-carbon-removal-facility-to-capture-30000-tons-of-co2-over-decade

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    1. chrisdh79 on

      From the article: Global leaders have been collaborating to execute decarbonization solutions to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.

      In another development, Deep Sky, a Canadian carbon removal developer company, has announced plans to build the world’s first carbon removal innovation and commercialization center.

      Called Deep Sky Labs, it is planned to be constructed at a strategically selected site an hour north of Calgary in Innisfail, a town in central Alberta, Canada. The company says the town is an emerging clean energy hub.

      The carbon removal facility will be devoted to developing highly scalable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions that are low-cost and less energy-intensive.

      Deep Sky Labs is the first cross-technology project in Canada to produce high-integrity carbon credits. It’s also the first commercial direct air capture project.

      Construction of the carbon removal innovation center is set to kick off imminently before the winter season, and the facility is expected to be up and running by the end of the year.

      “I cannot overstate the significance of the world’s first carbon removal innovation and commercialization centre, and what this means for Canada and our planet at large,” stated Damien Steel, Deep Sky CEO.

      “This project represents a world first and serves as a testing ground from which the nascent industry can grow into Canada’s multi-trillion-dollar enterprise.”

      The construction site spans five acres within a municipality-owned industrial park at 6015 35th Street, near other planned green projects, including a solar farm and a waste-to-energy plant.

      Engineering and design of the carbon removal labs are currently under partnership with BBA, an engineering firm.

      The facility will be able to capture 3,000 tons of CO2 per year, or 30,000 tons over ten years, via up to 10 different technologies. It will also include room for future expansion, stated the firm.

      Deep Sky Labs would also allow the testing of new technologies for tackling carbon emissions. For instance, different Direct Air Capture (DAC) concepts can be examined simultaneously.

      The company stated in an official statement that the carbon removal facility’s tech-agnostic nature decreases delivery and operational risks while increasing the speed at which the industry can scale.

      In a first-of-a-kind approach, the labs aim to resolve the delivery delays that have often compromised other global carbon removal projects.

      Eight DAC technologies, along with standard instruments to collect operational data, are planned for placement at Deep Sky Labs.

    2. Celestial_Mechanica on

      This is pure techno-optimism. A CEO shovelling hopiumware at taxpayers’ expense, while using up acres of what could have been biodiverse forest.

      30000 tons per *decade*? Now please enlighten the class, and tell us how many tons are emitted every year.

      Edit: per decade, not year.

    3. PrecursorNL on

      Ok so 3000 tonne / year = 3.000.000kgs

      1 tree takes up 25kg / year
      1 hectare fits minimum 1000 trees (likely more, up to 2500)

      1 hectare = 25.000kg / year

      So with just 120hectare of forest (1.2 km2) you’ll get the same effect, _without all the CO2 produced of the removal facility, CO2 used to run the plant, cost of building the plant, cost and CO2 of developing the plant…_

      Yup, totally great idea. I’m sure we are focusing on the right things /s

      For the same multitrillion whatever the fk they are talking about we could just try to preserve rainforest and invest in reforestation which will be much more efficient carbon capture _and have the added bonus of improving (/preserving!) biodiversity, cooling the climate, giving us resources etc etc_

    4. zutpetje on

      Total bullshit greenwashing. We subsidise fossil fuel companies with 7tn dollars yearly. End the he fossil fuel industry. More trees, less assholes.