Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture (DAC + S) plant 'Mammoth' in Iceland.

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Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture (DAC + S) plant 'Mammoth' in Iceland. The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant. The DAC process sucks carbon from the air and stores it, most often underground, where it can no longer contribute to global heating. Climeworks’ new DAC plant has an annual carbon capture capacity of 36,000 metric tons. The Mammoth plant, begun in 2022, will be completed by the end of this year. The company’s first commercial DAC project was also in Iceland — the Orca plant — and has an annual capacity of 4,000 metric tons. Mammoth has successfully started to capture its first CO₂.


     

     

     

 

     


Iceland

Capital- Reykjavík
Continent- Europe
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