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Scientists Gene Edit Plants to Be Better at Capturing Carbon

Matias Prieto — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:33:28 +0000

It’s not enough for humans to pump less carbon into the atmosphere. To address climate change, many experts say we’re going to need to find a way to remove some of the emissions already polluting our air. While some scientists are focusing on mechanical solutions to carbon capture, researchers at the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants […]

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Researchers Capture Carbon Dioxide and Turn it Back to Coal

Mila Luleva — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:35:50 +0000

Researchers discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide back into coal. Carbon capture as a mean for mitigation of climate change, is quite a hot topic. Discussions have covered all aspects of the technique- theory, practice, viability, implementation, impact. It even made it into the official IPCC reports as one of the most promising solutions […]

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Coca Cola Signs Deal to Use Captured CO2

Mila Luleva — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:36:10 +0000

Coca Cola will be using carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere in their fizzy mineral water. Carbon capture has been a quite hot topic in the last couple of years. Numerous companies have been trying to make use of the unwanted atmospheric gas in various industries. Products range from mattresses, to jewelry, and even carbon […]

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Cost of Carbon Capture Just Got Lower Thanks to New Tech

Effie P — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 20:23:15 +0000

In view of the alarming rates of global warming, ongoing discussions in Katowice are evaluating measures of decarbonizing the economy. With the energy sector responsible for the largest contributions to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the most sustainable course is undoubtedly to decouple energy production from fossil fuels. However, we still need to do something to […]

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Swiss Company Produces First Carbon Capturing Power Plant

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:54:16 +0000

Harnessing greenhouse gases from point sources, such as flue stacks, is an accepted mitigation for air pollution. However, capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere has been debatable in terms of its efficiency in reducing carbon footprint. A Swiss company, Climeworks, has just initiated such effort that could prove its effectivity in reducing carbon build-up […]

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Giant Collection Fans Offer New Solution For Carbon Capture

Nicholas Say — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:51:31 +0000

There isn’t much to debate anymore when it comes to the harmful nature of carbon emissions. Even China has made huge changes to its energy sector, and they are moving to a much lower amount of greenhouse gas production. While meeting the emissions goals laid out in The Paris Accords is a great start, there […]

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Coffee Grounds Can be Used to Capture Carbon

Mila Luleva — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:56:26 +0000

Scientists in South Korea have found a way to turn coffee grounds from waste into a cheap and effective material that captures carbon. Coffee grounds have found quite a number of applications over the years- from being used in cosmetics instead of microplastics, through unblocking drains and replacing chemical fertilizer, all the way to being […]

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Smog-Capturing Tower to be Built in Rotterdam

Mila Luleva — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:13:14 +0000

Carbon-harvesting, smog-capturing tower is soon to emerge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. All carbon that is collected will then be turned into jewelry. Not too long ago, when Beijing smog was making the news nearly every day, there was a Dutch designer, Daan Roosegaarde, and his team at Studio Roosegaarde, who invented a technology that harvests […]

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Carbon Negative Energy System Invented at Berkeley

Mila Luleva — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:31:41 +0000

Carbon capture techniques in combination with energy from biomass, shows a strong potential in creating a carbon negative power system by year 2050. Researchers from University of California at Berkeley are currently exploring the possibility to combine energy production from biomass with carbon capture and sequestration techniques (BECCS). Their initial findings indicate that this is […]

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First Ever Superficial CO2 Turbine Turns Emissions into Power

Mila Luleva — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:19:35 +0000

Five of the world’s greatest energy and technology giants have teamed up to construct a demonstration power plant, which will host the first ever superficial carbon dioxide turbine. The technology is part of a unique carbon dioxide power cycle, which is a true revelation in the field of carbon capture. The design and development of the turbine […]

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Refrigerating Carbon Emissions Might Be the Solution to Effective Carbon Capture and Storage

Mila Luleva — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:36:52 +0000

Now that the debates triggered by the IPCC report seem to have cooled down a little, the conclusions are pretty much final. Climate change is happening, temperatures are rising, natural disasters are intensifying, and despite all efforts, carbon emissions are still skyrocketing (literally). Scientists are rushing into developing techniques to handle at least one of […]

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Graphene Synthetic Fuel Catalyst Developed by University of Illinois at Chicago

Benji Jerew — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:58:52 +0000

Synthetic fuels can turn practically any vehicle carbon-neutral, since the vehicle would emit the same carbon dioxide that was used to make the fuel in the first place. Actually, this is exactly the draw of biofuels, except that, with synthetic fuels, you don’t have to wait for the plants to grow. I guess you could […]

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NETL Researchers Test Sorbents for Carbon Capture and Disposal

Adele Hall — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:42:57 +0000

Carbon Dioxide is a growing concern due to how it impacts global climate. CO2 is formed when carbon binds with oxygen at power plants used to generate electricity. Scientists at DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory are in the process of developing a way to separate the elements and capture them for permanent disposal. The capture […]

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Reducing Carbon Emissions Could Save Millions of Lives in 2100

Mila Luleva — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:16:37 +0000

Scientists from University of North Carolina, the Joint Global Change Research Institute, UCAR/NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the US Environmental Protection Agency, conducted a study which determines the economic and health benefits of reducing carbon emissions. The research indicates that if in 2100 the average temperatures are not more than 2.6 degrees Celsius higher than […]

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USGS Estimates the Country’s Carbon Capture And Storage Potential

Mila Luleva — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:38:29 +0000

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) released a report, indicating that onshore carbon storage resources across the country are sufficient to trap 500 times the country’s total carbon emissions reported in 2011. This is the first ever carbon sequestration assessment conducted in the country. Due to the fact that storing carbon dioxide underground is strictly […]

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Do You Know How Much Carbon Can Forests Sequester?

Mila Luleva — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:17:38 +0000

The importance of trees in controlling the global carbon cycle is very often neglected. We keep hearing about extensive deforestation projects, forest fires and cutting of thousand years old trees for the properties of their wood or simply because they are in the way of a big highway construction project. But are we really aware […]

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Cheap Carbon Capture and Storage Tech Needed to Effectively Fight Climate Change

Mila Luleva — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:14:16 +0000

According to the new U.S. secretary of energy, Ernest Moniz, the key to fighting against climate change is to develop cheap and effective techniques for carbon capturing and storage. Despite the economic crisis and budget cuts, many companies and research institute have already acknowledged the importance of carbon capturing in the battle against global warming […]

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Sea Urchins Inspire New Carbon Capturing Technique

Mila Luleva — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:57:12 +0000

We read about great discoveries that are made in the world of science just by mimicking natural processes. This type of study is published in the most recent issue of the journal Catalysis Science and Technology. Scientists at Newcastle University found that sea urchins absorb carbon dioxide by turning it into shell using the metal […]

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Cheap, Energy-Efficient Method of CO2 Emission Reduction

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:02:21 +0000

For four years now, the Technische Universitat Darmstadt in Germany has been studying an innovative carbon-capturing system, the carbonate-looping method, which aside from being cost-effective, energy-efficient, and having a 90% capturing capacity, is also feasible to be retrofitted in an existing power plant. The pilot scale carbon-capture plant involves the utilization of naturally occurring limestone […]

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Carbon Stored in Soil to Rise Again, Study Says

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:17:29 +0000

After discovering that soil erosion can actually store some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, acting as a carbon sink, a recent discovery reveals that after some time it can also be a carbon source as its stored carbon will rise up again back to the atmosphere. Researchers at the University of California – Davis have […]

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A Novel Material for CO2 and SO2 Capture

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:52:47 +0000

A new hope arises for carbon capture and storage as a new material synthesized by researchers of United Kingdom’s University of Nottingham was discovered to be safe and nontoxic to environment and economical that can selectively adsorb CO2 and SO2 gases and regenerate easily, as reported in its article recently published in Nature Chemistry. Most of […]

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Can salt marshes prevent climate change, or are they simply a delay-action bomb?

Mila Luleva — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:46:36 +0000

Plants growing over salt marshes and wetlands have been a subject of interest for many researchers dealing with climate change. As this is by far one of the most widely discussed topics of the past decades, many world-leading scientists have tried to explain, predict and hopefully find ways to mitigate and control raising temperatures and […]

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On-Plant Carbon Capture Much More Efficient Than Air Scrubbing, Study Says

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:32:29 +0000

To get rid of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, one sure way to go would be capturing the gas directly from the air. However, this is more of a challenge than would be capturing the carbon at the source of its emission, the power plant furnaces, say Stanford and MIT researchers. A similar study has […]

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Miscanthus: The Biofuel Crop Than Can Sequester Carbon… Naturally

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:00:42 +0000

An analysis performed by Christer Jansson from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and his colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed that a grass called miscanthus could constitute the perfect solution for capturing carbon dioxide and sequestering it into the soil.

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The first carbon capture system ever built

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:33:46 +0000

Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT's first step toward a commercially viable air capture device.

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