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  • 12 - Direct Air Carbon Capture and Sequestration

  • from Section III - Carbon Dioxide Removal
  • Wake Smith, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Pandora's Toolbox
    Published online:
    24 February 2022
    Print publication:
    24 March 2022, pp 187-198

  • Summary

    The final carbon capture chapter focuses on DACCS and notes that due to difficulties in remediating ongoing emissions from recalcitrant economic sectors such as aviation, long-distance transport, agriculture, and waste streams, DACCS will almost certainly be necessary simply to get to net zero emissions. However, if by then temperatures are unacceptably high, DACCS will be required on an utterly massive scale to reduce atmospheric carbon concentrations. The mechanics of DACCS are quite similar to those required for flue gas capture, but the much reduced concentration of carbon in ambient air elevates the cost of DACCS substantially. While there remains material uncertainty as to the mature cost of DACCS, the size of a future DACCS industry needed to substantially reduce future atmospheric CO2 concentrations would rival the size of the fossil fuel industry today. The three leading companies in the DACCS field are reviewed to illustrate the promising but nascent status of this industry today.