{"id":11507,"date":"2023-09-12T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/the-worlds-biggest-carbon-capture-facility-is-being-built-in-texas-will-it-work\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:38:00","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-carbon-capture-facility-is-being-built-in-texas-will-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/the-worlds-biggest-carbon-capture-facility-is-being-built-in-texas-will-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year \u2013 but is it just greenwashing from big oil?<\/p>\n<p>Rising out of the arid scrubland of western Texas is the world\u2019s largest project yet to remove excess carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) from the atmosphere, a quest that has been lauded as essential to help avert climate catastrophe. The project has now been awarded funding from the Biden administration, even as critics attack it as a fossil fuel industry-backed distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of setting up enormous fans to gulp in huge amounts of air and remove planet-heating carbon from it, a process called direct air capture (DAC), are basking in their greatest breakthroughs yet in the US. In June, ceremonial shovels were plunged into the dirt in Ector county, Texas, to mark the start of a $1bn project called Stratos, which aims to remove 500,000 tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub> from the atmosphere a year once fully operational in 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/sep\/12\/carbon-capture-texas-worlds-biggest-will-it-work\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2b74c9e15fdc9ab01cfe0827e4931f1be05fb54d\/0_133_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3fca3d3dd0b6ad1c8ab264568dd4f6f8\" title=\"The world\u2019s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?\" \/>The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year \u2013 but is it just greenwashing from big oil?<br \/>\nRising out of the arid scrubland of western Texas is the world\u2019s largest project yet to remove excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, a quest that has been lauded as essential to help avert climate catastrophe. The project has now been awarded funding from the Biden administration, even as critics attack it as a fossil fuel industry-backed distraction.<br \/>\nProponents of setting up enormous fans to gulp in huge amounts of air and remove planet-heating carbon from it, a process called direct air capture (DAC), are basking in their greatest breakthroughs yet in the US. In June, ceremonial shovels were plunged into the dirt in Ector county, Texas, to mark the start of a $1bn project called Stratos, which aims to remove 500,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere a year once fully operational in 2025. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year \u2013 but is it just greenwashing from big oil? Rising out of the arid scrubland of western Texas is the world\u2019s largest project yet to remove excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, a quest that has been lauded as essential &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/the-worlds-biggest-carbon-capture-facility-is-being-built-in-texas-will-it-work\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The world\u2019s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}