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Can Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Make Nanofibers?

Annika Tostengard — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 06:27:06 +0000

Climate scientists now concede that in order to mitigate the effects of climate change, it is not enough to simply reduce fossil fuel emissions. No, the situation is dire enough that we need to find a way to actually remove the carbon dioxide already emitted into the atmosphere. Scientists have largely focused their efforts on […]

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German Clean-Tech Company Makes Fuel From Water

Mila Luleva — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:55:22 +0000

First of its kind liquid hydrocarbon fuel, developed by a German company for clean technology, holds the potential to transform the world of renewable energy. The synthetic fuel, which resembles petrol, diesel and kerosene is a product of water and carbon dioxide conversion. To produce the new synthetic fuel, the guys at Dresden’s Sunfire GmbH followed […]

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FermentAlg: Algae-Powered Lamp That Provides Light and Absorbs Carbon Dioxide

Mila Luleva — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:27:58 +0000

While urban planners and city officials are debating over what is better- planting trees alongside roads to absorb carbon dioxide or making more space for light installations to avoid accidents at night, a biochemist from the clean tech firm FermentAlg has designed a smart green way to tackle both problems at the same time. A […]

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Technology Developed for Extracting Carbon Dioxide from Air Efficiently

Maria Reyes — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:52:36 +0000

Most researchers today are concerned with reducing the emission of carbon dioxide by designing more efficient engines and switching to renewable sources of energy. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have chosen another route; they are studying the direct extraction of carbon dioxide from air using newly developed adsorbent materials. The technology was initially used […]

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MIT Finds How Carbon Dioxide Could Be Sunk Into the Ground Forever

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:50:27 +0000

Deep saline aquifers in the U.S. could be the solution for storing the CO2 outputted from coal power plants in the long run, thus making them cleaner and the energy cheaper. It’s not that I turned into preaching people how to get along with coal (again), but the solution really sounds simple and, if it’s […]

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Genetically Modified Enzyme Leads to Better Carbon Sequestration at Coal Powered Plants

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:02:14 +0000

Capturing the carbon dioxide that a coal-powered plant produces and sequestering it is not an easy task, and until now it rose the costs of the electricity produced by 80 percent. Due to researchers at Codexis, a Redwood, CA, company, genetically modified enzymes can make carbon dioxide capture much cheaper, increasing the cost of electricity by less than a third.

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Space Rocket Nozzle Technology Could Capture CO2 and Turn It Into Dry Ice

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:52:36 +0000

ATK, a company that builds the space shuttles' booster rockets may have a solution for the massively-polluting coal power plants, by using rocket nozzle technology to turn the carbon dioxide into dry ice, and capture it easier than they can do with chemicals.

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Hair Conditioning Shampoo Component Captures 90% of Coal Plants' CO2

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:48:44 +0000

Aminosilicones are regularly used in hair-conditioning shampoos and fabric softeners, but recently they show usefulness in fighting global warming by filtering carbon dioxide out of flue gases from coal plants.

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Carbozyme Mimicking Blood's CO2 Capturing Process for Industrial Use

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:11:31 +0000

Carbozyme, a NJ-based company is trying to mimic a phenomenon that happens when you breathe: capturing CO2 via a naturally occurring blood enzyme. Our body captures about two pounds of carbon dioxide per day - scaled-up industrial systems could do a lot more if put up properly.

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