Energy & Green Tech
The struggle to cut emissions is real. Last year, the world emitted more than 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, setting a new record high. As a result, sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere has become an increasingly ...
Jul 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Direct air capture was identified as one of the "seven chemical separations to change the world." This is because although carbon dioxide is the main contributor to climate change (we release ~40 billion tons into the atmosphere ...
Jul 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.
Jun 5, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
To avoid catastrophic climate impacts, excessive carbon emissions must be addressed. At this point, cutting emissions isn't enough. Direct air capture, a technology that pulls carbon dioxide out of ambient air, has great ...
May 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Engineers at Georgia Tech have designed a process that converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material that could be used for new plastics, chemicals, or fuels.
Apr 26, 2024
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Engineering
Even as the world slowly begins to decarbonize industrial processes, achieving lower concentrations of atmospheric carbon requires technologies that remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, rather than just preventing ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Engineering
This year's heightened drumbeat of extreme weather shows us how little time we actually have to slash emissions.
Sep 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report finds promise in pairing nuclear reactors with carbon dioxide removal technologies, including direct air capture.
Sep 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The US government said Friday it will spend up to $1.2 billion for two pioneering facilities to vacuum carbon out of the air, a historic gamble on a still developing technology to combat global warming that is criticized ...
Aug 11, 2023
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Engineering
The ocean isn't just impacted by climate change—it may also be part of the solution to reversing it.
Jul 24, 2023
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