With market competition from other direct air capture developers deploying similar modular strategies, it is reasonable to expect that direct
air capture innovation and cost improvements will continue.
For example, Senators Barrasso (R - WY) and Schatz (D - HI) have co-sponsored legislation that would create a $ 50M Federally funded direct
air capture innovation prize.
Not exact matches
Even with
innovation and scaling up, we may at some point have to deploy «direct -
air capture» technology, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Many thanks to the City of Portland, Ecotrust, the Willamette Partnership and the Urban Greenspaces Institute for helping to pull it together and even more so, for their ongoing work pioneering natural infrastructure
innovations that are saving money, beautifying communities, improving
air and water quality, and
capturing carbon.
I am hopeful that the ARPA - E conferences in the future will highlight more
innovations with shared CDR applications, including direct
air capture, gasification, and thermochemical biomass conversion technologies.
Carbon dioxide can be
captured inside of coal plants or from the ambient
air, but doing so is expensive, and significant
innovation is required to make it much cheaper.