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The first large-scale carbon capture facility is now online. But will it make a difference?

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The Swiss company Climeworks activated its first major carbon capture facility in southwest Iceland in early September 2021. The facility, known as "Orca", runs entirely on geothermal energy, and essentially sucks CO2 directly out of the air and shoves it underground, trapping it in basalt rock formations about three kilometers away. — Read the rest


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