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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Katharine Gammon in Los Angeles

UNBELIEVABLE: Suck carbon from the air us facility launches novel climate solution | History Defined

A person in a hard hat and safety vest looks way, way up in a mostly-white industrial building at towers of trays stacked so high they're out of the frame, beyond which are fans.
A person looks at stacks of trays holding treated limestone in Tracy, California, in this handout picture obtained on 9 November 2023. Photograph: Heirloom Carbon/Reuters

Inside a vast new warehouse in the California town of Tracy, tall towers of trays containing a gray powder are stacked in neat rows.

It’s all part of Heirloom, a company that promises to use limestone to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it deep within concrete, keeping it out of the atmosphere. The facility – the first commercial direct air capture (DAC) plant in the US – opened last week.

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