How Much Energy Does It Take to Remove Carbon?

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Technology we have today and we are deploying today works period. And we could scale that to gigatons. We're working on heavy deployment of the current state of technology. How much energy does it take to remove carbon? Because you don't want to create as much as you're removing. Very simple answer. 10%. If we take a ton of CO2 out of the air with our machines, we are emitting 0.1 tons in the form of gray emissions from both energy and material use.

The carbon-capture industry notched a breakthrough in early 2023, when Climeworks became the first company to be third-party certified for taking carbon out of the air and mineralizing it underground. Climeworks co-founder and co-CEO Christoph Gebald is now racing to scale this new potential, from Iceland to Oman to the United States, by convincing investors, corporate partners, and governments to support a new pillar in the quest for net-zero goals. Christoph points to both serendipity and learning from mistakes as key in helping Climeworks navigate the steep path required in addressing climate-crisis.

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