PlanetWEST Claims $30/ton DAC at Gas Stations — Let's Look Closer
A press release landed claiming direct air capture at $30/ton by retrofitting 120,000 US gas stations. The company is PlanetWEST, the technology is called MIDAC G2, and the pitch is genuinely clever: while you pump gasoline in, the machine pumps captured carbon out. Solid carbon output, no CO₂ pipelines needed, zero water consumption, no chemical byproducts. For context on those numbers: Climeworks’ Mammoth plant in Iceland is running at roughly $1,000/ton. The DOE’s Earthshot program has a target of $100/ton by 2030 — an ambitious goal that the field is working hard to hit. PlanetWEST is claiming $30/ton now, from a press release. ...