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The new largest DAC facility in the United States opens today! Project Bantam will operate at 5000 tons per year, 5X larger than the next largest US DAC facility. Marcus Lima and the team over Heimdal have built a novel process involving low-cost solvents and construction with a total cost for this project at around $3m. For now, the facility will be using the removed CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), due to delays in permitting for permanent geologic sequestration in Class VI wells. This is a fantastic step forward for Heimdal, for direct air capture, and for climate. Cheers to the entire team! https://lnkd.in/edy63PKU
Drew Bond
2mo
OKLAHOMA! The Sooner State getting to the DAC party soonest. Gotta love it.
Helene Lee, CFA
2mo
Capturing 5,000 tons of CO2 is a nice start. But I think we need to get to the gigaton level to make a dent in overall CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Bajio V.
2mo
Is $3 million the total cost of constructing the entire DAC facility? or simply the $3 million cost of the DAC technology/system/modules, without accounting for any additional auxiliary systems essential for its operation? If the whole CAPEX for the 5000 tpy DAC facility is just $3 million, it is an amazing accomplishment.
Marcus Lima
2mo
Thanks for sharing Jack. We're super proud of Bantam and the work put in by the whole Heimdal team. Next up we build real scale. More to come on that in the next few months.
Danny Kirk
2mo
Wow that's an incredible total cost of project for the amount of CO2 captured per year. Congrats!
Drew Hutto
2mo
Very interesting news! What county is this in?
Matthew Rube
2mo
Thanks so much Jack! We're glad to have made it to step one, now time to do the work and get going on bigger and better.
Scaling up decarbonization @equinor
2moGreat. Do you know how it is powered up and what is the overall cost per tco2 captured?