But in the USA they are already completing the construction of a factory with an order of magnitude greater capacity
The world's largest plant for cleaning the Earth's atmosphere from pollutants has opened in Iceland.
The plant, called Mammoth, is the second commercial plant to directly capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It was built by Climeworks, and this factory is 10 times larger than the first one, opened in 2021.
Mammoth captures carbon dioxide from the air and then pumps it into the ground. The installation will be able to extract 36,000 tons of carbon per year from the atmosphere. In the USA, at the end of this year they plan to launch a factory that will be able to extract 500,000 tons per year.
At the same time, such installations are sometimes criticized even by environmentalists, noting that they are ineffective, expensive and distract from issues of reducing emissions. Climeworks doesn't give an exact amount, but says the cost of each ton of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere is closer to $1,000 than $100. It is $100 per ton that is considered the threshold value at which such technology can become widespread and viable. But Climeworks itself says it won't be able to reach the $100 per ton target until around 2050. Of course, if we do not significantly increase the scope of construction of such installations.
It can also be noted that scientists talk about 70 million tons annually that need to be removed from the atmosphere to achieve global climate goals.