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The world atmosphere has been collected carbon dioxides since the first industrial revolution. And, with these massive volumes of carbon dioxides that still stay in the air, make planting a lot of trees in the growing populated areas are unfeasible and not cost-effective actually.
Now, there are 15 direct air capture plants that capturing 9 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. And Climeworks (the Swiss engineering startup) has built the largest direct air capture and storage plant (carbon capture machine) named 'Orca' that can extract a volume of carbon emissions that is equivalent to about 870 cars emission for a year permanently. The plant has container-sized boxes that fit with fans that pull air and filter out the carbon dioxides contains. Then the capture carbon dioxides will dissolve in water as solutions and pump to the underground, over time, the solutions underneath will be hardened into stone.
However, these plants are expensive to operate and selling captured carbon dioxide for industry uses will make more harm. Therefore, this technology is a great investment for the country that committed to The Paris Climate Agreement and putting extreme high taxes on high emitters industry players. Hence, if the companies want to reduce their high carbon emission tax, they need to contribute and make a subscription to support the country carbon-capturing projects, these contributions will be uses to operate and maintain the plant.
These can be crucial steps to enable the world to create and adopt sustainable technologies that don't make pollution while the industries are contributing to funding the carbon-capturing projects in a way to redeem their emissions. It is a zero-sum game; the authorities, societies and industries are helping together to keep the world a healthier place.
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