The fans are embedded in shipping container-sized boxes, and once the [CO₂] is separated, it gets mixed with [HO₂] then travels through snaking, fat tubes deep underground, where the [C] cools and solidifies.

"Think of it like a vacuum cleaner for the atmosphere," Julio Friedmann, an energy policy researcher at Columbia University who attended the plant's ribbon-cutting ceremony, told Insider. "Nothing else can do what this tech does."