The race is on to sort out local weather change by pulling carbon from the air

2HJF0FC DRAX POWER STATION, DRAX, UK - JANUARY 19, 2022. An aerial view of a rail freight train delivering renewable biomass fuel to Drax Power Station

Vitality agency Drax has a biomass energy plant in Yorkshire, UK

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A CATTLE shed close to Edinburgh sucking up methane emissions and a workforce altering the acidity of seawater within the English Channel might sound unlikely prospects for avoiding more and more harmful local weather change. However they're simply two of 24 tasks collaborating in a £100 million UK competitors for revolutionary methods of sucking greenhouse gases out of the air.

Governments worldwide have been waking as much as the necessity to develop methods of eradicating emissions from the ambiance to fulfill net-zero …