and Scientific American named Harvard University chemist Dan Nocera ’ s artificial ‘ leaf ’ as one of the top emerging technologies of 2017 .
A number of other scientists and entrepreneurs such as Catalytic Innovations , Opus 12 , Carbonclean , Dioxide Materials and Bill Gates-backed Carbon Engineering are also working on technologies to make recycling carbon dioxide a profitable industry .
Carbon capture : Where are we now ? Swiss company Climeworks claims it is the first company in the world to commercially capture CO2 from ambient air using its own specially designed technology , and recently opened its first commercial plant at the end of May last year . Located at a Climeworks facility near Zurich , developers say the plant will capture about 900 tonnes of CO2 annually – the equivalent level released from around 200 cars .
The plant sits on top of a waste heat recovery facility that powers the process . Fans push air through a filter system that collects CO2 . When the filter is saturated , the CO2
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