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The world’s largest direct carbon capture plant just went online (www.engadget.com)
submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/climate
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[–] finthechat@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The company’s previous record-holding carbon capture plant, Orca, sucks around 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year, but the new plant can handle nearly ten times that, as reported by The Washington Post.

The plant’s called Mammoth and boasts 72 industrial fans that can pull 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air each year.

Ackshulaaly that's not nearly 10 times, that's exactly 9 times

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ackshulaaly, they claimed it can handle "nearly 10". 9 is nearly 10. Pushes glasses back up bridge of nose

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

You just out-akshuallied the other guy. Nice