Carbon capture comes back down to Earth June 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/climate/carbon-capture-comes-back-down-to-earth.html
Billions have been invested in technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the sky in recent years. But Trump’s policies have clouded the outlook.
Yet it’s not just the political landscape that has changed. There are also new questions about the viability of some prominent carbon capture technologies. Climeworks’ flagship plant in Iceland, which uses so-called direct air capture to scrub carbon dioxide from the sky, removed just a sliver of the carbon dioxide it had hoped to during its first 10 months in operation, according to Heimildin, an Icelandic news organization. “It takes time to ramp up,” Wurzbacher told me when I asked about the report. “We are just at the beginning, and it has taken longer than we thought.”