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Direct Air Capture (DAC) is a type of technology created since 1999 to help trap carbon dioxide gas from the air directly. However, it also has a number of relatively significant shortcomings such as the air trapping limit of only two thousand tons of carbon dioxide gas from the air every year, and the high cost of several hundred US dollars for each ton.
Because of this, Google has collaborated with a new DAC technology company called Holocene to speed up the process of trapping carbon dioxide gas from the air, and to reduce the cost to only 100 USD for each ton trapped, in addition to storing this gas for industrial use and so on. .
This cooperation is strategic for both parties. For DAC technology, the two parts used are chemicals and also the part that sucks the air to separate the carbon dioxide gas from the other components of the air.
Although Holocene is a new company, they are developing chemicals that use amino acids and other organic substances to reduce harm to the environment. This trapped gas will then be compressed to be stored in liquid form and will be stored by the company for various types of use later, such as dry ice and so on.
In terms of storage, the collaboration between Google and Holocene allows the company to store as many as 100 thousand tons of carbon dioxide gas in early 2030. This figure is just a start, because according to Google, we need to reduce billions of tons of carbon dioxide gas from the earth's atmosphere by 2050 to stop climate change and the glasshouse effect that is increasingly ruining the earth's ecology with today's hot temperatures