Startup company Remora recently bought a 4,400-horsepower locomotive that is about to be delivered this week to its parking lot in the Detroit suburbs via a new rail spur.
The company plans to use the 1994 General Electric unit to test its mobile carbon-capture technology for rail use, said Paul Gross, Remora’s 28-year-old chief executive and co-founder.
“It’s such an amazing learning tool for us,” he said, adding that the company’s system would be able to capture a ton of carbon dioxide per hour.
Remora’s technology is designed to extract CO2 from the exhaust of diesel freight train locomotives and semi trucks, then purify and liquefy the greenhouse gas on board. It plans to sell the CO2, sharing the revenue with its transportation partners. The goal is to help decarbonize the freight industry, a major contributor to carbon emissions.
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