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Climeworks: Revolutionizing Climate Change Solutions
TLDR Climeworks, founded by Jan Wirtzbacher and Christoph Gebald, is using direct air capture technology powered by renewable energy sources to remove billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, partnering with companies like Microsoft and Audi to provide scalable CO2 removal services and aiming to become a profitable business driving climate change solutions.
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Entrepreneurs are working on developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat climate change.
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Jan Wirtzbacher and Christoph Gebald, both mechanical engineering students, founded Climeworks with the dream of starting a company, initially unaware of direct air capture technology, which they later developed to combat climate change.
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To remove a significant amount of CO2 from the air, a large volume of air needs to be filtered due to the low concentration of CO2 molecules, highlighting the necessity of both reducing emissions and actively removing carbon to combat climate change.
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Direct air capture technology, powered by renewable energy sources, has the potential to scale up and remove 10 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, playing a crucial role in combating climate change.
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Climeworks uses direct-air carbon capture technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, storing it underground in Iceland where it mineralizes with rocks, while continuously capturing more CO2 for long-term impact.
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Climeworks raised $650 million in financing to build large-scale facilities for capturing CO2 from the air, aiming to scale up to removing billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere annually by mid-century.
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Climeworks aims to scale up the deployment of containers for capturing CO2 from the air by comparing the required number to global economic activities like open pit mining, highlighting the feasibility of scaling up the industry.
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Climeworks partners with companies like Microsoft and Audi to provide CO2 removal services, helping them offset their carbon emissions and work towards becoming carbon neutral or carbon negative.
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Climeworks provides scalable CO2 removal services to companies and individuals, offering a permanent and additional solution to offset carbon emissions and contribute to a new industry.
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Climeworks aims to become a profitable business in order to drive climate change solutions through scalable technology development.
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