With an obvious need to address climate change, and the practical interest of many investors and regulators in ESG, reducing carbon footprints of buildings has gained new importance.
The typical way of address carbon emissions is through cutting energy use—getting more efficient physical systems, creating greater efficiency in heating and cooling buildings by monitoring where people are, and so on.
CarbonQuest has a different approach for buildings that use natural gas for heating or hot water. The company has equipment that takes CO2 arising from burning the gas and compresses and cools it to form a liquid. The liquid is then shipped to some other company that can permanently sequester it.
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