and our rapid testing. and i think as we re going into the cooler dryer months, still have questions about testing. who should be getting tested and how often should people be getting tested, what kind of tests should they be using? you know, i think that this is the whole point is to have accessible, affordable tests tor when you need or want one and that is exactly what all of the scale up has been about. certainly if you have any symptoms that are suggestive of covid-19, you should go and get a test and i would say if you have access to a rapid test, or a pcr, get that one. so anybody that has symptoms should get a test and consult with your health care provider but quarentine until you have the results of that test. and many people are using tests for asymptomatic screening in our k through 12 systems and in many higher ed and many are using it as people start to
its scientists, its doctors are being very quickly punished in a situation where frankly we don t know all that much right now? well, alex, i agree 100%. i think we need to be thankful that countries like south africa have invested in gene nick sequencing and have been able to pick up strains like this. variants will be popping up and continue globally until we control this pandemic, and the worst thing we can do is punish countries for doing the right thing, for reporting the var yabts because then what s going to happen is countries will start reporting what they find or will stop sequencing and that will be worse, so if we want transparency we need not to have this kind of travel ban because at the end of the day what we need to do is increase vaccination. south africa only has 28% to 38% of the vaccination and many of them vaccinated with a johnson & johnson vaccine that we know is not as effective. what we need to do is implement a rapid scale-up of vaccines in
with a better environmental record. at the time we decided to build orca, we did not have the certainty from the market because it simply was not existing. so it was a huge risk taking for us but already today, a large share of that capacity is contracted, and we are very thankful and happy that this happened and that, actually, fuels and motivate us to get going and actually already work on the scale up of the next plan. on a larger scale, companies such as carbon engineering are planning huge plants in north east scotland and texas, which will each remove up to a million tons of carbon dioxide a year. but what of the carbon once it s captured? nick kwek is in iceland, where a very green energy facility is leading the way. this is one of the cleanest geothermal power plants on the planet. but it s also the test bed for some new technology which could make a huge difference when it comes
is about 10 15% of what it s capable of removing over its lifetime. and climeworks biggest project to date, 0rca, has just kicked into life last month in iceland. it captures 4000 tons of c02 each year. the company sells the permanent removal of co2 by weight. even individuals can buy in. but in reality, it s mainly companies wanting to go green with a better environmental record. at the time we decided to build 0rca, we did not have the certainty from the market because it simply was not existing. so it was a huge risk taking for us but already today, a large share of that capacity is contracted, and we are very thankful and happy that this happened and that, actually, fuels and motivate us to get going and actually already work on the scale up of the next plan. on a larger scale, companies such as carbon engineering
at the time we decided to build 0rca, we did not have the certainty from the market because it simply was not existing. so it was a huge risk taking for us but already today, a large share of that capacity is contracted, and we are very thankful and happy that this happened and that, actually, fuels and motivate us to get going and actually already work on the scale up of the next plan. on a larger scale, companies such as carbon engineering are planning huge plants in north east scotland and texas, which will each remove up to a million tons of carbon dioxide a year. but what of the carbon once it s captured? nick kwek is in iceland, where a very green energy facility is leading the way. this is one of the cleanest geothermal power plants on the planet. but it s also the test bed for some new technology which could make a huge difference when it comes to the global fight