{"id":140729,"date":"2022-06-17T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/carbon-engineering-occidental-petroleum-partnership-to-build-70-to-135-direct-air-capture-plants-by-2035"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:02:36","slug":"carbon-engineering-occidental-petroleum-partnership-to-build-70-to-135-direct-air-capture-plants-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/carbon-engineering-occidental-petroleum-partnership-to-build-70-to-135-direct-air-capture-plants-by-2035","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Engineering-Occidental Petroleum Partnership to Build 70 to 135 Direct Air Capture Plants by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-engineering-occidental-petroleum-partnership-to-build-70-to-135-direct-air-capture-plants-by-2035.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll need thousands of these direct air capture plants or their equivalents from industry and nature to reduce atmospheric CO2.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Direct Air Capture, also known as DAC, is one of a number of carbon capture technologies seen as a way to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming. The technology harvests carbon dioxide (CO2) from ambient air. It is not an add-on to a coal-fired or natural-gas thermal power plant, but rather a standalone solution to removing CO2 from the atmosphere for the purpose of permanently sequestering it underground.<\/p>\n<p>A leader in this form of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is Carbon Engineering, a Canadian-based company whose demonstration plant sits in Squamish, British Columbia. Bill Gates is an investor. And now Occidental Petroleum through its subsidiary 1PointFive has entered into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pointfive.com\/1pointfive-and-carbonengineering-announce-directaircapture-deployment-approach\">a partnership<\/a> to build and deploy a minimum of 70 or as many as 135 DAC plants like the one seen in the picture above by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Each facility will have the capacity to remove a megaton of CO2 from the atmosphere annually. The methodology uses a tower structure containing an array of giant fans which pull in air that then passes over a solution containing potassium hydroxide which attracts and binds the CO2 to it. Once captured the CO2 can then be compressed and shipped by pipeline to a sequestering site. And although a megaton sounds like a lot of CO2, it really is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll need thousands of these direct air capture plants or their equivalents from industry and nature to reduce atmospheric CO2. Direct Air Capture, also known as DAC, is one of a number of carbon capture technologies seen as a way to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming. The technology harvests carbon dioxide (CO2) from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}