Climate tech firm plans 'mammoth' plant to suck CO2 from air

Climate tech firm plans 'mammoth' plant to suck CO2 from air

• By Staff Writer

World's biggest plant​

Swiss start-up Climeworks AG is set to begin construction this week on what would become the world's biggest plant to capture carbon dioxide from the air and deposit it underground.

Direct Air Capture

Climeworks' existing DAC plant direct air capture (DAC) is already the biggest in the world. The company behind the nascent green technology says its second large-scale will be 10 times bigger.

To be built in Iceland

This 'Mammoth' plant will be built in Iceland in 18-24 months. The plant will contain around 80 large blocks of fans and filters that suck in air and extract its carbon dioxide.

36,000 tonnes per year

The new plant will have a capacity to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 per year from the air. That is just a fraction of the 36 billion tonnes of energy-related CO2 emissions produced worldwide in a year.