Less than two weeks after Earth saw the highest average daily temperatures in recorded history, Friday was a perfect day to kickstart a major weapon in the fight against climate change.
Electricity producer Calpine cut the ribbon on its new pilot project at the Los Medanos Energy Center in Pittsburg that aims to capture 95 percent of the carbon produced by its electrical generation.
While carbon capture has been around for decades, and ION has done other pilot projects, this is the first that was specifically designed for ION's new technology. The project is considered small scale, compared to what it could eventually do, said Jennifer Atcheson, ION's vice president of operations.
"I personally have been working on this problem for 20 years, boy am I excited to see this happening in the field," said Roger Aines, a senior advisor on carbon dioxide removal for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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