Carbon emission reduction has become a long-term goal for nearly every product-producing company in the world and soon the U.S. will be home to a significant source of carbon removal.
By Ben Munson
For Thomas Insights
Image Credit: CarbonCapture
Carbon emission reduction has become a long-term goal for nearly every product-producing company in the world and soon the U.S. will be home to a significant source of carbon removal.
CarbonCapture, a company that specializes in direct air capture systems, announced earlier this month that Wyoming will be the site of its massive megaton-scale carbon capture facility. The operation, named Project Bison, is being built in cooperation with Frontier Carbon Solutions — a developer of carbon storage technologies — and it plans to remove 5 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually by 2030.
Ramez Naam, a climate and clean energy investor, pointed out on Twitter that that figure is still only 1/10,000th of global annual emissions but it’s better than doing nothing.
The project is expected to be operational by late 2023, at which point it will be one of the first atmospheric carbon removal facilities permanently storing carbon dioxide in wells and the first direct air capture system project to be scaled in the U.S. It’s kind of like the Ghostbusters’ containment unit, but instead of ghosts, it’s holding CO2.
