Meet the fossil fuel-funded startup trying to take CO2 out of the ocean

A rendering of a water filtration system that sits atop a platform in the ocean. A rendering of what a large “direct ocean capture” plant from Captura could look like. | Image: Caltech

An audacious new effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the Pacific Ocean as a way to fight climate change is being backed by fossil fuel giants and Big Tech. But the nascent technology, called “direct ocean capture” (DOC), still has a long way to go to prove that it works — and that it won’t cause any new problems.

Caltech researchers founded the startup Captura, which just Read Entire Article

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