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Sucking the carbon out of the sky

Future Perfect

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Capturing Carbon Dioxide Directly From the Air

There are a bunch of different technologies tat try to capture c o two and n keep it from getting into the atmosphere or take it out of the atmosphere. Can you walk me through, sir, what the main strategies are there, andand how they differ from each other? Yes, i think we should first start with perhaps differentiating two types of technologies. One is just carbon capture, which is capturing emissions as come out from, say, a power plant or an industry. And that is something we've been doing for five decades at least. Then there's a whole new class of technologies and ideas, not just technologies, or some of these are essentially big science experiments. Those are

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