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  • 7/1/2025
High Place (France): To reduce industrial emissions and meet Europe's 2050 carbon neutrality goals, French startup Revcoo is piloting a Co2 capture and storage system at a lime factory in northern France. The Technology is part of growing movement to decarbonise heavy industries. Hugo Lucas, president and founder of Revcoo, explained the urgency for industries to adopt such solutions.He said, "The industrialist will pay a price per ton of Co2 to be able to emit. Today, Co2 capture is part of the solutions to prevent the industrialist from paying quotas."Revcoo's technology liquefies Co2, which can then be used in various sectors like food processing, agriculture, or pharmaceuticals. It can also be store in depleted oil wells or utilised to synthesise green fuels for aviation and shipping. Lucas said, "We aim to install a machine capable of treating 10,000 tons of Co2 per year, and subsequently develop a standard machine that can treat 100,000 tons of Co2 per year by 2028."The prototype is installed at the Bocahut lime site, whose manager Julien Rosini said, "Our decarbonization objectives are a 46% reduction on scopes 1 and 2 by 2030, a 30% reduction on scope 3, and a net-zero trajectory by 2050." He said that the prototype still needs testing and upscalling to meet the long-term goals. (with AFP inputs)

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00:00In Northern France, a small startup called Revco is working on a big idea, capturing
00:23carbon dioxide at its source.
00:28At Lyme Factory in Houtliu, they are testing a new machine that can trap carbon dioxide
00:33before it escapes into the air.
00:58The industry has an urgency for its rentability to decarbonate its industry.
01:04Today, the capture of CO2 is part of its solutions to prevent the industry paying its quotas.
01:11Revco's founder Hugo Lucas says, this is important because companies now have to pay to release
01:18carbon.
01:19Capturing it helps them save money and the environment.
01:25So, the CO2 liquid has three ways to be treated.
01:28The first is to be used in the agricultural activities, as mentioned earlier,
01:36in the pharmacy or agriculture.
01:38So, this is the traditional market market that exists for decades.
01:42We will then have the possibility of sequestration.
01:46So, here we are on a treatment of a waste.
01:48So, to sequestration the CO2 in the old petrol pipes.
01:51This is what was done in Norway or in England.
01:54And the last solution is to use the CO2 to synthesize carbon dioxide, to be able to
01:59decarbonize aviation or maritime.
02:02The captured carbon dioxide can be reused in food, farming or even make cleaner fuels
02:09for planes and ships.
02:11Right now, their machine captures 1,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
02:17But by 2028, they hope to treat 100,000 tonnes.
02:22Julian Rossini, the site manager, says,
02:52This project supports their big goal, cutting emissions by 46% by 2030 and reaching net zero
02:59by 2050.
03:01The carbon dioxide objectives we have are the objectives of the group.
03:04That is, minus 46% on our scopes 1 and 2 in 2030,
03:09minus 30% on our scope 3 and, of course, a net zero trajectory in 2050.
03:16And today, the prototype which is installed at REFCO is, of course, a prototype which must
03:23be experimented, which must be set to scale to reach all the objectives that we want to reach
03:29at the end of history.
03:31This small step could lead to a big change in how industries handle pollution and fight climate change.

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