Direct air capture removal projects are akin to huge vacuum cleaners sucking carbon dioxide out of the air using chemicals to remove the greenhouse gas . Once removed CO gets stored underground or used in industrial materials like cement . US Department of Energy will announce it is spending . billion to fund two new demonstration projects in Texas and Louisiana . The machines are being built to essentially supercharge the natural carbon removal already done by trees bogs and oceans which is not happening fast enough to capture fossil fuel emissions at the scale humans are emitting them . The projects are expected to remove more than million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air annually once they are up and running the equivalent of removing nearly gas cars off the road . The US direct air capture projects alone could increase global capacity for the technology by times said Sasha Stashwick, policy director at Carbon an independent nonprofit focused on carbon removal in the world . It is not yet clear what the hubs will ultimately do with the captured CO will use captured CO for enhanced oil recovery a method where carbon is injected into the ground to release more oil release more than a million metric tonne to be used in the future . Another project in Iceland removes about metric tons a day roughly the same amount of carbon emitted by cars a day . The hubs will be powered by clean energy bought from the local utility but have plans to power facilities with renewable energy in the past but they say they have no plans to use renewable energy. Another issue is how the hubs are powered to ensure the hubs would be powered to be powered with clean energy. The centers will be located in the distance from the area. The hubs are expected. The Hubs will not be powered. The hub will not use captured carbon to be planted with clean electricity. It is unclear
Biden administration to invest $1.2 billion in projects to suck carbon out of the
