But as he says, we have a long way to go. Let’s put this into some kind of perspective; the average American per capita emissions per year is 17.7 U.S. tons (16.06 metric tons). So the entire Orca project removes and stores the carbon emissions of 248 average Americans.Let’s put it another way: A Ford F-150 emits an average of 5.1 U.S. tons (4.6 metric tons) of CO2 per year, so the Orca plant absorbs the equivalent of 862 gasoline-powered F-150 pickups. Ford sells 2,452 pickup trucks every day so the Orca
Source: Climeworks Turns On the World’s Largest Carbon Capture and Storage Plant
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