company Climeworks in the country. It's 10 times bigger than its predecessor, Orca, which started running in 2021.designed to suck in air and strip out the carbon using chemicals. The carbon can then be injected deep beneath the ground, reused or transformed into solid products.Climeworks' Mammoth plant started operating in Iceland on Wednesday.
But carbon removal technologies such as DAC are still controversial. They have been criticised as expensive, energy-hungry and unproven at scale. Some climate advocates are also concerned they could distract from policies to cut fossil fuels. Mammoth will be able to pull up to 36,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere at full capacity, according to Climeworks. That's equivalent to taking about 7800 petrol-powered cars off the road for a year.