Air Canada and CE collaborate to decarbonise aviation

Air Canada has partnered with clean energy firm Carbon Engineering (CE) to explore the potential of the latter’s Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology in decarbonising the aviation industry. They have signed a memorandum of understanding in this regard. Both these firms aim to identify potential collaboration activities in sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), permanent CO₂ removal and innovation. Air Canada will also look out for opportunities to buy SAF using CE’s solutions. The DAC technology, which collects carbon directly out of the atmosphere, can be utilised to facilitate decarbonisation in two approaches. It can eliminate huge amounts of carbon permanently from the atmosphere when used with geologic storage, offering an instrument to remove any carbon emission at any time and from any place. DAC, through incorporation with CE’s AIR TO FUELS technology, can be utilised for generating ‘ultra-low’ carbon transportation fuels, unifying atmospheric carbon and clean hydrogen.<br/>