What is Capture6 Project Tortuga?

Some regions, such as Perth in Western Australia, now get far less water flowing into their dams and depend on desalination, which turns salty water into drinking water. Separately, direct air capture is a way to pull carbon dioxide out of the air to lower its level in the atmosphere, but it is expensive. Capture6 Project Tortuga is a demonstration system that treats saltwater and industrial brine to recover clean water and, according to Capture6, also captures carbon dioxide from the air in the same process. It is the first phase of Capture6's Project Wallaby, and it runs eight containerised units together at the Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct near Perth.

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