Effective Carbon Dioxide Capture Using Two-Dimensional Ionic Liquids
A new technology for CO2 capture, utilization, and storage has attracted broad attention in the context of global concern about climate change and greenhouse gas…
Carbon Capture
New Low-Cost Battery-Like Device Captures CO2 Emissions While It Charges
Researchers have developed a low-cost device that can selectively capture carbon dioxide gas while it charges. Then, when it discharges, the CO2 can be released…
New Polymer Membrane Tech Improves Carbon Capture Efficiency
Scientists have developed a new membrane technology that allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gases, such as power plant emissions….
Earth’s Most Efficient Natural Storage System: Land-Building Marsh Plants Are Champions of Carbon Capture
Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide. Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating…
Turning Plastic Waste Into Carbon-Capture Master That Can Soak Up Excess Carbon Dioxide
Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master. Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess…
Nanostructure Combines Copper, Gold and Silver To Give Carbon Capture and Utilization a Boost
Chemists have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold, and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a chemical reaction whose improved performance…
New Nature-Inspired Concepts for Efficiently Turning CO2 Into Clean, Sustainable Fuels
Researchers have developed an efficient concept to turn carbon dioxide into clean, sustainable fuels, without any unwanted by-products or waste. The researchers, from the University…
Supercomputing Safe and Effective Carbon Capture and Storage
University of Texas researcher identifies factors for safe and effective carbon capture and storage. The road to a stabilized climate is challenging and contentious. A…
Game-Changing Carbon Capture Technology To Remove 99% of CO2 From Air
University of Delaware researchers’ carbon capture advance could bring environmentally friendly fuel cells closer to market. University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated a way to…
Clearing the Air: Decarbonization Technologies Take a Giant Leap Forward
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels today are higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years or more. During a year when terms like carbon…
The Carbon Takeback: Affordable Policy That Could Stop Fossil Fuels From Causing Global Warming
Stop fossil fuels from causing global warming within a generation… The Carbon Takeback Obligation could do just that. Imagine a single policy, imposed on one industry, which…
Zeolites’ Isotopes Defy Nature – New Potential for Carbon Capture and Storage
New finding could help inform how zeolites are used in carbon capture and storage. First study to analyze the calcium isotope composition of zeolite minerals…
Metals Supercharge Method To Bury Billions of Tons of Harmful Carbon Dioxide Under the Sea for Centuries
Capturing and burying carbon is one of the most promising ways to blunt the pace of climate change University of Texas and ExxonMobil researchers found…
Stanford Reveals Potential of an Overlooked Climate Change Solution
Analyses lay out a blueprint for speeding development of atmospheric removal and modeling how the approach could improve human health and have an outsized effect…
Carbon Capture Gets Cheaper: Making Methane From CO2
Methane made from CO2 and renewable hydrogen offers a new path toward cheaper carbon capture. In their ongoing effort to make carbon capture more affordable,…
Capturing Dissolved Carbon Dioxide and Toxic Ions From Water in Tiny “Nanojars”
Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere can dissolve in oceans, lakes, and ponds, forming bicarbonate ions and other compounds that change water chemistry, with possible harmful…
Capturing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Transforming It Into Industrially Useful Materials
Salk scientists quantify process to permanently store plant-captured CO2 as SiC, a valuable material for electronics. Plants are unparalleled in their ability to capture CO2…
Scientists Declare Climate Emergency: Earth’s Vital Signs Worsen Amid Business-As-Usual on Climate Change
Scientists reaffirm 2019 climate emergency declaration and again call for transformative change based on updated trends. In 2019, a coalition of more than 11,000 scientists…
