Challenges to carbon sequestration
Consider the reliability of the technology itself, it works, but it will need more success to meet future needs, which means understanding things like how to reduce cost as well as dealing with other basic barriers like how weather and climate affect equipment.
For example, high heat or extreme humidity will reduce efficiency, which means the plant will capture less carbon dioxide from the air, and the Helsheide Plateau in Iceland, where Claimworks facilities are located, is an exposed and stormy area, which exposes equipment to extreme conditions. As harsh as snow, ice and wind, alternatively in a warmer and less humid environment the equipment will face sandstorms. These things will only get better with deployment in the field, and the laboratories that are being built now present a great learning opportunity.
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Another problem CCS faces is the market and the financing. While the voluntary carbon market has enough momentum and size to fund the next decade or so, are enough people willing to fund annual carbon removals of the size of a gigaton or more? Hartel replies that it takes government action, including rationing.
The current carbon offset market, in which companies buy points for avoided emissions rather than emissions removed, is rife with poor quality and even fake points, and to solve that problem with the removals market would require the application of rigorous global standards for measurement, reporting and verification, among other things. .
The final challenge is to create a suitable supply chain to reduce the cost of the technology. Currently, all of the dAC container systems are handcrafted, the huge boxes that capture and collect carbon from the air. It will have 27 containers) but it is expensive, the sector will need a semi-automated manufacturing process to make the equipment; If he wanted to reduce the cost of this technology as the cost of wind and solar energy decreased.