{"id":7257,"date":"2026-01-06T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:45:13","slug":"kenya-startup-to-use-geothermal-energy-to-capture-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7257\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya startup to use geothermal energy to capture carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A startup in Kenya plans to use geothermal energy to capture carbon from the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 4,000-mile-long Great Rift Valley up Africa\u2019s east coast was created by tectonic plates pulling apart. Much of it is therefore hugely geologically active, and Kenya uses the energy to generate about a quarter of its electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But the vast majority of its potential is untapped, MIT Technology Review reported. Nairobi-based Octavia Carbon has built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/12\/22\/1130153\/geothermal-energy-carbon-capture-kenya-climate-solution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:four prototype \u201cdirect air capture\u201d machines powered by the Earth\u2019s energy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">four prototype \u201cdirect air capture\u201d machines powered by the Earth\u2019s energy<\/a>, to demonstrate that the technology is efficient, affordable, and scalable. The UN\u2019s climate change body says that keeping warming to manageable levels will require not just cuts in emissions but pulling billions of tons of carbon from the air.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A chart showing Kenya\u2019s electricity production by source.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b6d7661778b1d36a843db846d4afcae2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A chart showing Kenya\u2019s electricity production by source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tom Chivers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A startup in Kenya plans to use geothermal energy to capture carbon from the air. The 4,000-mile-long Great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5157,5153,2035,80,5155,5156,5154],"class_list":{"0":"post-7257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-direct-air-capture","9":"tag-geothermal-energy","10":"tag-great-rift-valley","11":"tag-kenya","12":"tag-mit-technology-review","13":"tag-octavia-carbon","14":"tag-tectonic-plates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}