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New technology converts CO2 in chimney smoke into new products
Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily driven by fossil fuel combustion, have surged dramatically over recent decades. In 2022 ...
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First-of-its-kind electrode from MIT converts CO2 into usable fuels, plastics
Given global warming and targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are practically and economically exploring ...
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Harvesting energy from CO2
The capture and conversion of CO2 into useful chemical fuels driven by solar energy represents one of the best solutions to resolve growing energy concerns. While researchers are exploring many ...
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Direct CO2 capture from the atmosphere will scale up massively in 2025
A US facility will pull up to 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air per year after it opens in 2025 and sell carbon ...
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The controversial machine sending CO2 to the ocean and making hydrogen
"It's more cost efficient to store the removed CO2, and we don't need the same infrastructure like pipelines that we do for direct air capture." Equatic has developed an interesting novel ...
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Is carbon capture an efficient way to tackle CO2?
“That will enable us to capture 36,000 tons of CO2 every year,” Climeworks’ chief commercial officer, Douglas Chan, tells the BBC. The idea is to reverse emissions that have already been ...
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Chemical structure's carbon capture ability doubled by new research
In addition to the capture of carbon dioxide and other types of gases, MOFs can be used as catalysts and for energy storage, drug delivery and water purification. When exposed to ammonia gas ...
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Carbon capture and storage articles from across Nature Portfolio
In an aqueous quinone-mediated system, both pH swing and nucleophilicity swing mechanisms contribute to CO 2 capture ... is observed in supercritical carbon dioxide with X-ray photon correlation ...
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DEVELOPING NEW USES FOR WYOMING COAL
As part of the Carbon Engineering Initiative (CEI), the Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCCC) has developed coal-derived soil amendments to provide a new, non-thermal and a potentially ...
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New chemical structures show vastly improved carbon capture ability
More information: Karlie Bach et al, Tetraperoxotitanates for High-Capacity Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide, Chemistry of Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01795 Journal ...
Nature3y
Japan’s moonshot project to capture carbon
The urgent need to directly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ... hydrogen-based energy and CO 2 capture and sequestration. Funded under Japan’s World Premier International Research ...
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Norway Carbon Capture Plant Marks Milestone in Longship Project
The European Union has said hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 will need to be captured annually by 2050 to reach net zero goals. Heidelberg Materials AG’s carbon-capture plant at the Brevik ...