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Refining the Skies: How Carbon Capture is Reshaping the Oil Industry
A carbon capture jet engine! First we capture the carbon through the air intake of our jet engine. This carbon is rerouted and stored in a container. After landing the plane, the captured carbon is taken to an oil refinery and added to…
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Previously
…Her own secret, the years she had spent tracking nascent carbon capture technologies, felt validated in this moment. She had seen the potential, the flicker of possibility in smaller, less ambitious projects. But this, this fusion of aviation and fossil fuel refining, was the breakthrough she had always hoped for, the technological leap that could, quite literally, change the air we breathe. The chapter of her analysis was drawing to a close, but the story, the grand narrative of a world learning to heal itself, was just beginning. The skies, once a symbol of unfettered progress and its environmental cost, were starting to feel a little lighter, a little cleaner, a little more hopeful.