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The world’s largest carbon removal plant is here, and bigger ones are on the way

“Mammoth” facility to filter CO2 out of air powers up.

DAC is supposed to be a way to fight climate change by getting rid of greenhouse gas emissions that have built up in the atmosphere, but the process still has to prove that it can scale up enough to have a meaningful impact. It took a big step forward in Iceland in 2021, where it opened the DAC plant Orca to start capturing CO2 and permanently sequestering it underground for clients, including Microsoft. The industry gets a lot of policy support in the US, with the Biden administration funneling$3.5 billion of federal funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law into developing at least four DAC hubs.

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