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This plant in Iceland can remove 4,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air annually
Located just outside Reykjavík, Iceland, this Orca plant uses a process known as direct air capture to remove CO2 from the air.

The project is a partnership between Swiss startup Climeworks and Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix.
‘By building direct air capture plants, that’s not a silver bullet... But if we want to remove something like 10 billions of tonnes of CO2 from the air every year…nature-based solutions will very likely not be sufficient,’ said Jan Wurzbacher, CEO of Climeworks.
After the CO2 is captured at the Orca plant, Carbfix turns the isolated carbon into underground rock.
Both technologies at Climeworks and Carbfix are powered by a geothermal power plant, which provides renewable energy.

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