Dair Capture

Summary

This document outlines the 'Dair Capture' project by Los Alamos National Laboratory, which aims to address the challenge of accelerating climate change, projected to cost $1.8 trillion by 2050 due to 40 billion tons of annual CO2 emissions. The approach involves developing a novel Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology that uses an ammonia sweep to capture and discharge CO2, targeting a 50-70% cost reduction and a 30x increase in sorbent lifetime compared to traditional methods. While current DAC has removed 0.1 million tons of CO2, the US aims for 85 million tons by 2030 and 980 million tons by 2050. Dair Capture, currently at TRL-2, seeks to achieve a cost of less than $100 per ton of CO2 and has set milestones to capture 1 Kg of CO2 by 2026, scaling up to 1 million tons by 2050, and is currently seeking $125,000 in funding.

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