CarbonFree CEO Martin Keighley gives a tour of its plant in San Antonio. CarbonFree has been capturing carbon dioxide since before carbon capture was cool. Since 2016, the company has captured flue gas from a cement plant in San Antonio, turning 50,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide into baking soda yearly. The so-called Sky-Mine produces …
A drilling derrick is part of the energy research project Deep Heat Mining in Switzerland. A few thousand feet below Texas’ sunbaked surface, sedimentary rock and gravel are superheated to hundreds of degrees by the earth’s magma. Geothermal energy flows every minute of every day, and for decades scientists have searched for a way to …
The oil and gas industry is slated to be a big beneficiary of carbon capture tax credits present in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. Talking about carbon capture projects used to be a bit more theoretical. Sure, polluting companies would say, we would love to deploy this technology on a large scale, but the …