by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates has given a Canadian company $40 million dollars to alter the Earth’s atmosphere by removing naturally occurring carbon.
Deep Sky announced Wednesday it was awarded a massive grant from the Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Catalyst to help finance what it calls its Deep Sky Alpha project.
Globalnews.ca reports: Construction work at the project site, located north of Calgary in the town of Innisfail, is already under way, Deep Sky CEO Damien Steel said in an interview.
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“This should be a proud moment for Canada. This facility in April of 2025 will be one of the first full-stack facilities in North America to actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere using renewable power, and store it underground in a deep saline aquifer,” Steel said.
Founded in 2023 by Frederic Lalonde — the Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded online travel company Hopper, Inc. — DeepSky aims to tackle the global climate crisis by building the world’s first direct air capture carbon removal test hub and commercialization centre.
It is the first Canadian company to receive an investment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, which funds commercial projects for emerging climate technologies in an effort to accelerate their adoption and reduce their costs.
“The world will ultimately need many approaches to carbon removal at prices far lower than is achievable today, but Deep Sky’s platform will enable and accelerate the kind of real-world innovation that could make affordable (direct air capture) achievable,” Mario Fernandez, head of Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, said in a release.
Direct air capture is a term that refers to physically removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow global warming. It is different from carbon capture and storage, which refers to capturing carbon from smokestacks or other industrial emission points.
Pulling carbon dioxide directly from the air is seen by proponents as a way to clean up historic emissions that have already escaped into the atmosphere, meaning it could potentially help reverse the damaging impacts of climate change.
The technology typically involves the use of giant vacuums or fans to suck in air and then pass it through a filtration system to remove the CO2 for safe storage underground.
Companies such as Canada’s Carbon Engineering Ltd. — which was acquired by U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum for US$1.1 billion in 2023 — and Switzerland’s Climeworks already have major projects in Texas and Iceland, respectively.
But while the number of direct air capture pilot projects around the world is growing, the technology remains expensive and faces steep barriers to wide-scale deployment.
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