The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Direct Air Capture

Atmospheric CO2 levels have hit, er, stratospheric levels. The levels measured today were last recorded in 3 million B.C., and given the global concern about climate impact, a major industry is in the process of being born — namely, the Carbon Reduction Industry. Afforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and direct air capture of carbon dioxide have all received a good deal of attention and are the subject of public curiosity. What is Direct Air Capture, how does it work, how does it pay, how far along is the science, how far along is commercialization. How much is needed, what will we do with the carbon.