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  • U of I-led team designing nation's first large-scale system for direct air capture, storage of CO2

    Oct 27, 2021 11:15 am by Tiffany JolleyResearch
    Climeworks’ Orca plant, the world’s largest direct air capture and CO2 storage plant, in Hellisheiði, Iceland. ©Climeworks

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    • Climeworks’ Orca plant, the world’s largest direct air capture and CO2 storage plant, in Hellisheiði, Iceland. ©Climeworks

    'The potential impact this could have would be immense, because now you can address unavoidable nonpoint sources by pulling CO2 out of the air, hopefully in any type of climate anywhere around the world,' said Illinois' Kevin OBrien.