The latest breakthrough technology doesn’t prevent carbon emissions, but instead, pulls them straight from the air.
The company is also looking into burying the capture carbon dioxide into underground storage wells.
The plant, located in California’s Central Valley, is relatively small.
Photo: zhuzhu/Depositphotos(Not actual plant)
The team is also still tweaking up the variables that could speed up the process and lower the costs.
Yet the company expects to grow exponentially by replicating their simple model.
We want to get to millions of tons per year,saidShashank Samala, the companys chief executive.
Photo: kodda/Depositphotos(Not actual plant)
That means copying and pasting this basic design over and over.
Heirloom has vouched not to accept backing from these industries.
While Heirloom and its technology have been seeing results, there is still a long way to go.
Even so, their endeavor and the support they’ve been getting are steps in the right direction.
The United States officially has its first commercial Direct Air Capture facility!
