‘World’s largest’ vacuum designed to suck planet-heating pollution is now open

(CNN) – The “world’s largest” vacuum designed to suck planet-heating pollution has just opened in Iceland.

“Mammoth” is a commercial direct air capture plant in Iceland which runs off clean geothermal energy.

Swiss company Climeworks said it is able to pull 36,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere at full capacity.

That is equivalent to taking around 7,800 gas powered cars off the road for a year.

The technology is designed to suck in air and strip out the carbon using chemicals.

The carbon can then be injected deep beneath the ground, reused, or transformed into solid products.

Climeworks said it plans to transport the carbon underground where it will naturally be transformed into stone.

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