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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 00:05:17 JST Aether ???

In a US first, a plant has started pulling carbon from the air.

news.yahoo.com/u-first-commercial-plant-starts-182814975.html

Silly me thinking that was what plants had been doing all along.
In conversation about a year ago from poa.st permalink
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  In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air
  
  TRACY, Calif. — In an open-air warehouse in California’s Central Valley, 40-foot-tall racks hold hundreds of trays filled with a white powder that turns crusty as it absorbs carbon dioxide from the sky. The startup that built the facility, Heirloom Carbon Technologies, calls it the first commercial plant in the United States to use direct air capture, which involves vacuuming greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Another plant is operating in Iceland, and some scientists say the technique could
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  Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 00:05:17 JST Bread up, Bro
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  @Aether "Heirloom will take the carbon dioxide it pulls from the air and have the gas sealed permanently in concrete, where it can’t heat the planet."
  
  This is just pure scam
  
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