Those Bubbles in Your Soda May Someday Help Save the Planet
- Swiss company likely to be first profitable carbon remover
- In talks with 'one of the largest fizzy-drinks companies'
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Climeworks AG is not the first company to figure out how to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. It may become the first to make money from it at an industrial scale.
The Swiss company plans to remove 1,000 metric tons a year of the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere when its first commercial plant starts working this summer near its headquarters in Zurich. That’s about the same as the carbon footprint of 200 British residents.