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Climeworks FAQ
General Questions
Direct Air Capture
- What is Direct Air Capture?
- What is the scale-up potential of your technology?
- How much energy is required to run your direct air capture process?
- Why not capture CO₂ where its concentration is much higher? (e.g. point sources like a smokestack or a megacity)
- How much CO₂ can you currently remove? What is your capacity?
- Why do you only remove CO₂ and no other greenhouse gases that are also harmful?
Technical Details
- How do you store the CO₂ you capture?
- How does geological (underground) storage of CO₂ work?
- How long does it take for the CO₂ to turn into stone?
- How much of the global excess CO₂ can we store underground?
- How does Climeworks compare to traditional carbon offsets?
- What is the difference between a Climeworks machine and a tree?