Biden-Harris Administration Announces Up To $1.2 Billion For Nation's First Direct Air Capture Demo...

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2. So, if you check the release, there are two pilot project here

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• Project Cypress (Calcasieu Parish, LA): Battelle, in coordination with Climeworks Corporation and Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Inc., aims to capture more than 1 million metric tons of existing CO2 from the atmosphere each year and store it permanently deep underground. This hub intends to rely on Gulf Coast Sequestration for offtake and geologic storage of captured atmospheric CO2. The project is estimated to create approximately 2,300 jobs, with a goal to hire workers formerly employed by the fossil fuel industry for 10% of the overall workforce. Project Cypress will implement a robust two-way communication program with local communities and stakeholders to solicit input into the project while also generating new employment opportunities and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility principles.


• South Texas DAC Hub (Kleberg County, TX): 1PointFive, a subsidiary of Occidental, and its partners, Carbon Engineering Ltd. and Worley, seek to develop and demonstrate a DAC facility designed to remove up to 1 million metric tons of CO2 annually with an associated saline geologic CO2 storage site. The project is estimated to create approximately 2,500 jobs in construction, operations, and maintenance with existing agreements for local hiring. The selectees will also establish a Citizen Advisory Board to ensure meaningful community engagement.

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“More than 1 million metric tons” & “up to 1 million metric tons” For purposes of argument, let’s say they work, achieving their goals. That makes 2 million metric tons (maybe more) removed from the atmosphere, each year.

The same release states that by 2050 we will need to remove, “between 400 million and 1.8 billion metric tons” of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.

So (assuming they work as advertised) we would need to build between 400 and 1,800 of these plants in about 25 years. (On average, each state would need between 8 and 36 plants.) They cannot be sited just anywhere. They depend on suitable geology. We don’t know how much power these plants will consume. We will need to build clean power sources for them.

We really have got to do it, I just doubt that we can.