First Southern Hemisphere Direct Air Capture Plant Planned
- Octavia, Cella to build plant in Kenya’s Rift Valley
- Direct air capture removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
A carbon capture research and development facility in Squamish, British Columbia.
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Octavia Carbon and Cella Mineral Storage have agreed to build the first direct air capture plant in the southern hemisphere, using an experimental technology to remove climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The Kenyan plant, to be known as Project Hummingbird, aims to trap 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually and store it underground, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday. The gas will be injected into volcanic rocks using geothermal energy from Kenya’s Rift Valley.