Cleaner Tech
Big Oil Backs Israeli Startup That Sucks CO2 From the Atmosphere
RepAir aims to cut the amount of energy needed for direct air capture.
RepAir’s technology sucks planet-warming CO2 from the air rather than just capturing it at the smokestack.
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Israeli startup RepAir raised $10 million to help scale up its technology to suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air.
RepAir is one of a handful of companies looking to build technology that performs a process known as direct air capture, which takes CO2 from the air and stores it safely out of the atmosphere. It’s potentially a key tool for getting rid of excess greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global warming — alongside the much larger effort to prevent them from ever entering the atmosphere in the first place.