In a room in a building tucked behind a building site in west London, copper gas lines weave across one wall, test tubes and loose bolts crowd the tabletops and a collection of white lab coats hang in the corner, under a slightly alarming biohazard first aid kit. The space, in one corner of the building’s 56k square metres, is occupied by direct air capture startup Airhive. Out of the 30 available lab and office spaces, just one unit (around 3% of the space) is currently unoccupied.
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