Ashlee Vance explains how Remora captures CO₂ directly from truck and train exhaust using porous pellets that pull the gas from the air. The captured CO₂ is compressed, liquefied, and sold to beverage companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, creating revenue that offsets the capture costs.
The key to Remora's premise is this: it attaches a machine to the exhaust of trains, trucks, and potentially just about anything that spews out CO2. Then it captures the exhaust and flows it over these pellets. The CO2 gets pulled into the tiny pores of the pellets. This is what makes it possible for Remora to isolate it and vacuum it out, and then compress the CO2 and turn it into a liquid that can be sold. Refreshment you can— Then it sells it to companies like Coke and Pepsi.
