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Direct CO2 capture from the atmosphere will scale up massively in 2025

A US facility will pull up to 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air per year after it opens in 2025 and sell carbon offset credits to large companies

By Madeleine Cuff

23 December 2024

The world?s largest Direct Air Capture facility from 1PointFive, STRATOS, currently being developed in Ector County, TX — Artist’s rendering of the Stratos facility that is due to open in Texas
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The world’s largest facility for removing carbon dioxide from the air is set to open in Texas in 2025, increasing the sector’s worldwide capacity by a factor of 13.

Currently the largest direct air capture (DAC) plant in the world is in Iceland – the Mammoth site, built and operated by Swiss firm Climeworks. It opened in May 2024 and can extract up to 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year from Earth’s atmosphere.

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