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The World's Largest Vaccuum to Suck Climate Pollution From the Air Just Began Operating


An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The "world's largest" plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on Wednesday. "Mammoth" is the second commercial direct air capture plant opened by Swiss company Climeworks i...

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The "world's largest" plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on Wednesday. The whole operation will be powered by Iceland's abundant, clean geothermal energy.... Climeworks started building Mammoth in June 2022, and the company says it is the world's largest such plant. It has a modular design with space for 72 " collector containers" — the vacuum parts of the machine that capture carbon from the air — which can be stacked on top of each other and moved around easily.

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