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Bill Gates-backed startup to use old wood to remove carbon from the air
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Bill Gates-backed startup to use old wood to remove carbon from the air

[ad_1] A startup backed and incubated by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures has engineered a hybrid technology that  combines engineering with natural photosynthesis processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground.  “It's important to understand that carbon removal is not an excuse to keep emitting, or to slow down our transition to a clean energy economy — we need to keep innovating as fast as we can,” Gates wrote in his firm's “State of the Transition 2023” report, released today. “But it's become clear that carbon removal will be a necessary tool to have in our toolkit.”  We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Plants naturally pull CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in their tissue, but that CO2 is released back into the atmosphere when the pla...