How to Use DAC in a Sentence

DAC

abbreviation or noun

• The unit is a Direct Air Capture, or DAC for short.
  — Molly McCrea, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
• The success or failure of Stratos will be the first commercial-scale stress test of DAC.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• In this case, the Chinese team used something called a dual-atom catalyst (DAC).
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
• Then came a deal with 1PointFive to buy credits from Stratos—the largest sale of DAC credits thus far.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
• About half of the room is taken up by a rack of tubes used for testing sorbents, and the other half by the DAC machine, nicknamed Phoenix.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• The result, says Mission, is a cleaner signal for feeding the connected DAC.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• The efforts follow a tumultuous batch of years for commercial DAC technologies.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• For years, most machines that pull carbon dioxide out of ambient air, known as direct air capture (DAC) systems, have relied on steam for heat.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• But direct air capture (DAC) systems consume a lot of energy and reagents that currently produce toxic by-products.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2025
• The Stratos facility in West Texas is about to become the largest commercial-scale test of whether DAC can work beyond pilot projects.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• Basic system architecture All DAC systems follow a three-stage process, beginning with capture.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• To capture the same amount of CO2 as CCS, DAC systems must process 1,000 times more volume.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• First proposed in 1999, DAC is still in the development phase—a reflection of the engineering challenges behind it.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• Two paths to scale The fundamental difference between DAC approaches comes down to the chemical agent used to capture CO2.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• The telescope is also kept in optimal optical working condition with the help of the Deployable Aperture Cover, or DAC.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
• Direct air capture, or DAC, represents the frontier technology designed to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• The provision of an optical digital output allows the DX1 II to be used as a signal processor between the source device and another DAC.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• All novel methods, such as DAC, biochar, and enhanced rock weathering, remove less than 2 million tonnes a year, according to the 2024 State of Carbon Dioxide Removal study.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2025
• The study estimates that by 2050, depending on the energy mix, calcium-looping DAC could achieve 85–96 per cent CO₂-removal efficiency.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2026
• Resistive Heating for Carbon Capture Resistive heating strategies for DAC, like Sustaera’s, are promising enough that the aerospace giant Airbus filed a patent for it in Europe.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• Verkor also plans to show an FPGA implementation of VerCore at DAC, the leading electronic design automation conference.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2026
• In 2025, researchers at the University of Houston developed a membranless electrochemical process capable of capturing CO₂ at roughly $70 per ton, placing DAC within reach of cost competitiveness.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026