Carbon Engineering Ltd. is a Canadian-based clean energy company focusing on the commercialization of direct air capture (DAC) technology that captures carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.[1][2]
This captured can either be stored underground, or converted into carbon-neutral fuel using renewable energy sources, by a process the company calls "air to fuels".[3] The company is running a pilot plant in Squamish, British Columbia, removing from the atmosphere since 2015 and converting it into fuels since December 2017.[4]
The company was founded in 2009 by David Keith, now a professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago,[5] and is now led by Daniel Friedmann as CEO, who served as the former CEO of Canadian aerospace company, MDA, for 20 years.