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An industrial take on developing and deploying carbon capture at scale

To write this article, Jennifer Rudd asked managers and vice-presidents working in carbon capture and carbon dioxide removal to share their insights on how to develop and deploy the technologies at scale.

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Fig. 1: World map of operational carbon capture and storage facilities, indicated by the red dots.

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The author would like to thank E. Bellmann, M. Ghoussoub, S. Ó. Snæbjörnsdóttir, A. Ruddock and M. Shah for contributing to this article.

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Rudd, J.A. An industrial take on developing and deploying carbon capture at scale. Nat Rev Chem 8, 1–2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-023-00560-4

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