Carbon capture startup Climeworks removes CO2 from atmosphere in ‘industry first’
2 years, 2 months ago

Carbon capture startup Climeworks removes CO2 from atmosphere in ‘industry first’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A climate startup claims to have captured carbon dioxide from the open air and stored it underground in an industry first. Climeworks AG used direct-air capture technology to pull air from the atmosphere, filter it and bury it in an effort to mitigate human-induced climate change. Carbon capture technologies have been criticised for the vast amounts of energy and resources required to build them, though Climeworks claims its machines offer one of the only solutions for massive-scale carbon removal. “Carbon capture and storage is going to be the only effective way we have in the short term to prevent our steel industry, cement manufacture and many other processes from continuing to pour emissions into the atmosphere,” Professor Stuart Haszeldine from Edinburgh University said in 2021 in response to criticism from green groups claiming that such technologies were a costly distraction.

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What is carbon capture?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What is carbon capture?

The Hindu  

Global warming is the result of certain greenhouse gases — but especially carbon dioxide — building up in the air and preventing the planet from cooling as quickly as it would without them. Although some natural processes emit these gases, their build-up to dangerous levels is entirely due to emissions from human industrial activity, including the combustion of fossil fuels …

Nearly 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Nearly 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit

New Indian Express  

BAKU, Azerbaijan: At least 480 lobbyists for companies and groups that advocate for a misguided technology that prolongs fossil fuel use have gained access to the COP29 climate talks, according to a new analysis conducted by the Center for International Environmental Law. The number of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage lobbyists is higher than the core delegations from the United …

Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO₂ from the air as a tree, scientists say
5 months, 1 week ago

Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO₂ from the air as a tree, scientists say

LA Times  

A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of a year. “You have to take CO2 from the air — there’s no way around it,” said Yaghi, who is also chief scientist at Berkeley’s Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet. As a result, it captures …

CEEC hits carbon capture milestone
8 months ago

CEEC hits carbon capture milestone

China Daily  

Asia's largest CO2 direct air capture device by capacity, "CarbonBox", has successfully completed reliability testing, said major developer China Energy Engineering Corp Ltd, marking a further advance of China's development of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies. "DAC is an emerging CCUS technology that can use low-carbon energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal to directly capture carbon dioxide …

European carbon removal specialists to support new projects in India
8 months, 3 weeks ago

European carbon removal specialists to support new projects in India

The Hindu  

A team of European carbon removal specialists launched an initiative on Tuesday to help Indian businesses develop projects that suck carbon dioxide out the atmosphere and mitigate global warming. The Amsterdam-based group, called remove, has raised more than 220 million euros to support carbon dioxide removal projects throughout Europe, and will now accept applications from Indian start-ups. Indian projects are …

Carbon-capture projects launch in Los Angeles County
9 months, 1 week ago

Carbon-capture projects launch in Los Angeles County

LA Times  

As soaring fossil fuel emissions continue to heighten global warming, multiple projects seeking to remove carbon dioxide from the air have been launched across Los Angeles County — an effort that project developers say is destined to make Southern California a global leader in climate adaptation. Project Monarch, a public-private partnership between the Palmdale Water District and the climate technology …

Is this the key to combatting climate change? Scientists are using a giant vacuum in Iceland dubbed The Mammoth to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air every year
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Is this the key to combatting climate change? Scientists are using a giant vacuum in Iceland dubbed The Mammoth to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air every year

Daily Mail  

The Mammoth can remove the CO2 equivalent of 7,800 petrol cars each year Amongst all the complex science surrounding climate change, one possible solution sounds absurdly simple. Scientists have developed a massive vacuum in Iceland to suck up to 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air every single year The Mammoth, as the plant has been dubbed, uses 72 modular …

New scientific interventions are here to fight climate change. But they aren’t silver bullets
11 months, 1 week ago

New scientific interventions are here to fight climate change. But they aren’t silver bullets

LA Times  

Behind a chain-link fence in a corner of San Joaquin County sits one of California’s — and perhaps the world’s — best hopes for combating climate change. “And it’s really important to recognize that, because it’s just a Band-Aid, we really don’t want it to take attention away from decarbonization.” While direct air capture and aerosol injections do show potential, …

Carbon capture, storage emerge as a contentious issue after COP28 meet
1 year, 3 months ago

Carbon capture, storage emerge as a contentious issue after COP28 meet

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: A person points at a stack of trays holding treated limestone, used to absorb CO2 from the air, at Heirloom's new plant, in Tracy, California, on November 9. After the UN climate summit earlier this month agreed to slowly phase out fossil fuels to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, a mitigation measure known as carbon capture, utilisation …

What is carbon capture and how much of a solution is it after COP28?
1 year, 3 months ago

What is carbon capture and how much of a solution is it after COP28?

Associated Press  

An agreement at the United Nations-led climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels brought a measure of relief for climate activists, even as many said it doesn’t go far enough. Skeptics have said carbon capture has been oversold as a climate change solution so that the fossil fuel industry can keep burning lots of oil, coal and natural gas. …

IITM professor bags national award for research on carbon sequestration
1 year, 4 months ago

IITM professor bags national award for research on carbon sequestration

The Hindu  

Rajnish Kumar, a faculty member in the chemical engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, who has bagged the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in the field of engineering for the year 2022, has been pursuing research on sequestering carbon dioxide, a process by which carbon is returned to earth. While design improvement in vehicles reduced the emission of …

Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in ‘carbon removal’
1 year, 7 months ago

Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in ‘carbon removal’

Associated Press  

The Energy Department announced Friday it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history. Claire Nelson, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory said moving away from fossil fuels and producing the things we …

How the Biden administration is pouring billions into technology that sucks carbon from the air
1 year, 7 months ago

How the Biden administration is pouring billions into technology that sucks carbon from the air

LA Times  

The Biden adminstration is funding projects by Occidental Petroleum and Climeworks that will remove carbon dioxide from the air. “If we deploy this at scale, this technology can help us make serious headway toward our net-zero emission goals.” Once operational, the hubs are expected to remove more than 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere, …

What is carbon capture? How the UK government plans to slash the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by catching it and storing it under the North Sea
1 year, 8 months ago

What is carbon capture? How the UK government plans to slash the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by catching it and storing it under the North Sea

Daily Mail  

It has been billed as an innovative way to allow Britain to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. CCS is a technology designed to capture carbon emissions from power plants, industrial processes and other sources, and store them permanently underground WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE? Pictured, a carbon removal facility from Carbon Engineering, a Canadian-based clean energy company CCUS involves …

Carbon capture might finally work but taxpayers must not be burdened unnecessarily
1 year, 8 months ago

Carbon capture might finally work but taxpayers must not be burdened unnecessarily

The Telegraph  

The International Energy Agency has said carbon capture has so far “not lived up to its promise”, and questioned whether it will be able to play a major role in the transition to net zero by mid-century. The Climate Change Committee estimates carbon capture will be by far one of the most expensive green technologies by 2035. Getting carbon capture …

Cause and Effect | Carbon, carbon everywhere
1 year, 11 months ago

Cause and Effect | Carbon, carbon everywhere

Hindustan Times  

To limit the temperature rise to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to avoid triggering multiple irrevocable changes in the climate system, the world needs rapid decarbonisation. There are currently 18 direct air capture plants operating worldwide, capturing 0.01Mt CO2 every year, according to a September 2022 analysis by the International Energy Agency. That’s a story for another time The …

Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air?
2 years ago

Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air?

BBC  

Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air? The system captures CO2 using energy from a rubbish incinerator Tackling climate change could require sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, according to the IPCC. Craig Lovell/Alamy Capturing and storing the CO2 released by bioenergy crops such as these Loblolly pines when they are burned could contribute to …

Explained: How carbon dioxide removal works
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: How carbon dioxide removal works

Live Mint  

With global temperatures still on the rise, even the most sceptical of scientists agree that carbon dioxide removal is crucial to meet the Paris Agreement goal of capping global warming below two degrees Celsius. The second way—called direct air capture—uses chemical processes to strip out CO2, then recycles it for industrial use or locks it away in porous rock formations, …

Study: Big gap in carbon removal effort key to climate goals
2 years, 2 months ago

Study: Big gap in carbon removal effort key to climate goals

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Researchers say efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere aren’t being scaled up fast enough and can’t be relied on to meet crucial climate goals. Developing countries argue that their contribution to global carbon removal — mostly in the form of forests and land management — are equally important and deserve greater recognition. The study concludes that …

Study: Big gap in carbon removal effort key to climate goals
2 years, 2 months ago

Study: Big gap in carbon removal effort key to climate goals

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Researchers say efforts to remove …

Carbon removal efforts not moving fast enough to reach climate goals, study shows
2 years, 2 months ago

Carbon removal efforts not moving fast enough to reach climate goals, study shows

LA Times  

Researchers say efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere aren’t being scaled up fast enough and can’t be relied on to meet crucial climate goals. New carbon removal technologies include so-called direct air capture, in which carbon dioxide is sucked from the atmosphere and stored underground. Achieving “net zero” emissions by midcentury — a goal many countries are aiming …

Carbon removal technologies to get $3.5B federal investment
2 years, 10 months ago

Carbon removal technologies to get $3.5B federal investment

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The federal government is investing in machines that suck giant amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air in the hopes of reducing damage from climate change. The Department of Energy said Thursday it will release $3.5 billion to groups developing direct air capture and other technologies that remove carbon dioxide, which when released into the atmosphere …

World’s biggest carbon removal machine ‘freezes over’ in Iceland
2 years, 11 months ago

World’s biggest carbon removal machine ‘freezes over’ in Iceland

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The company running the world’s largest carbon removal machine has been forced to make modifications …

UN: ‘Cutting carbon emissions not enough; Suck Co2 from the air and bury it’
3 years ago

UN: ‘Cutting carbon emissions not enough; Suck Co2 from the air and bury it’

The Hindu  

To save the world from the worst ravages of climate change, slashing carbon pollution is no longer enough – CO2 will also need to be sucked out of the atmosphere and buried, a landmark UN report is expected to say on Monday. This means an abrupt drop in carbon emissions of six or seven percent a year is needed to …

Scientifically Speaking | Can we stop the climate crisis by sucking up CO2?
3 years ago

Scientifically Speaking | Can we stop the climate crisis by sucking up CO2?

Hindustan Times  

To solve the climate crisis, the world will need to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In contrast to this kind of carbon capture at an industrial point source is direct air capture which is essentially pulling carbon dioxide out from the air. Direct air capture plants run huge fans that suck in a lot of air …

Direct air capture machines suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Are they part of the solution to climate change?
3 years, 2 months ago

Direct air capture machines suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Are they part of the solution to climate change?

ABC  

On a barren lava plateau in Iceland stands an entirely new kind of industrial facility that sucks carbon dioxide from the air and traps it in stone. The world's first commercial direct air capture plant is designed to remove thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gas every year and then inject it deep underground. "The science is very clear that to …

Air-scrubbing machines gain momentum, but long way to go
3 years, 4 months ago

Air-scrubbing machines gain momentum, but long way to go

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — On a field ringed by rolling green hills in Iceland, fans attached to metal structures that look like an industrial-sized Lego project are spinning. They say we need to suck massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air and put it back underground — yielding what some call “negative emissions.” “We have already failed on climate …

Can carbon capture facilities reverse climate change?
3 years, 5 months ago

Can carbon capture facilities reverse climate change?

Al Jazeera  

The world’s biggest such complex will capture 4,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year in boxes the size of shipping containers. But with plans under way for even larger “direct air capture” operations than the one in Iceland, proponents say this pioneering technology can help humanity to make the world carbon neutral and limit heating to the internationally agreed target …

Have we solved the carbon capture conundrum?
3 years, 5 months ago

Have we solved the carbon capture conundrum?

The Telegraph  

The centre of the chemical engineering department at Imperial College London is dominated by a cluster of stainless steel pipes stretching four storeys high. This pilot plant is part of Britain’s largest carbon capture research programme and is intended to demonstrate to students best practice in capturing and storing harmful carbon dioxide. Ministers are doubling down on the technology by …

Direct air capture sucks carbon right out of the skies
3 years, 5 months ago

Direct air capture sucks carbon right out of the skies

Wired  

Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher were, in the latter’s words, “young, motivated and maybe a bit naïve,” when they decided in 2009 to set up a company based on technology that could capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Climeworks, based in Zurich, Switzerland, specialises in direct air capture of carbon dioxide, which is then permanently stored underground. Climeworks’ carbon dioxide …

World's largest carbon dioxide capturing plant starts in Iceland
3 years, 6 months ago

World's largest carbon dioxide capturing plant starts in Iceland

Firstpost  

The plant is designed to capture 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the air every year Reykjavik : The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into rock started running on Wednesday, the companies behind the plant said. The plant, named Orca, after the Icelandic word “orka” meaning “energy”, consists of …

What is carbon capture and how does it work?
3 years, 11 months ago

What is carbon capture and how does it work?

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Carbon capture and renewable energy could turn UK’s emissions negative by 2033, says National Grid …

A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground
4 years ago

A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground

Salon  

Most pipelines that snake around the United States carry carbon that was buried underground for millions of years and then dug up, destined to be burned in a combustion engine or furnace or boiler and emitted into the atmosphere. If it gets built, the project will prove a new business model for carbon capture in the biofuels industry and expand …

The device that reverses CO2 emissions
4 years ago

The device that reverses CO2 emissions

BBC  

The device that reverses CO2 emissions Carbon Engineering Carbon Engineering is planning the world's largest direct air capture plant, in Texas, USA Cooling the planet by filtering excess carbon dioxide out of the air on an industrial scale would require a new, massive global industry – what would it need to work? When it becomes operational in September, Carbon Engineering's …

Is It Time for an Emergency Rollout of Carbon-Eating Machines?
4 years, 2 months ago

Is It Time for an Emergency Rollout of Carbon-Eating Machines?

Wired  

The climate emergency demands that we dramatically and rapidly cut emissions. But it also demands a technological revolution to reverse years of out-of-control emissions: The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that if we want to meet the Paris climate agreement’s most optimistic goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, we have to deploy some …

Climate crisis: ‘Virtually impossible’ to hit global environment targets without new carbon capture technology, report says
4 years, 6 months ago

Climate crisis: ‘Virtually impossible’ to hit global environment targets without new carbon capture technology, report says

The Independent  

Carbon dioxide emissions are the world’s biggest problem, and through the burning of fossil fuels which emit this potent greenhouse gas, our species is making it worse all the time. Despite carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies remaining largely in their infancy and untested at scale, a major report from the International Energy Agency now states without their rapid uptake …

Microsoft pledges to completely remove carbon footprint amid criticism over work with oil giants
5 years, 2 months ago

Microsoft pledges to completely remove carbon footprint amid criticism over work with oil giants

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Microsoft has promised to remove as much carbon as it has put into …

New technology removes carbon dioxide from the air at any concentration level: Study
5 years, 5 months ago

New technology removes carbon dioxide from the air at any concentration level: Study

India TV News  

Researchers have developed a new technology to capture carbon dioxide from a stream of air -- virtually at any concentration level -- an advance that may pave the way for new strategies to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas levels. The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US said that while most methods of removing carbon dioxide from a …

Tata Chemicals plans UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
5 years, 9 months ago

Tata Chemicals plans UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant

Live Mint  

Tata Group’s unit making chemicals in the UK plans to build the country’s first industrial-scale carbon capture project. Carbon capture and storage so far struggled to gain traction mainly because of the cost of the technology and because there’s no clear business model to make it pay. “We hope that this project will demonstrate the viability of carbon capture and …

WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURING AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
5 years, 9 months ago

WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURING AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Daily Mail  

Carbon Capture and Storage captures emissions produced from the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation and industrial processes. The use of CCS with renewable biomass is one of the few carbon abatement technolo­gies that can be used in a 'carbon-negative' mode ­– actually taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The process consists of three parts - capturing the …

New kind of carbon powder eats up emitted CO2 before it reaches the atmosphere
6 years, 3 months ago

New kind of carbon powder eats up emitted CO2 before it reaches the atmosphere

Firstpost  

The powder is an enhanced version of black carbon with larger size & number of pores to trap CO2. A first-of-its-kind powder extracted from plants traps carbon dioxide before it reaches the atmosphere, faster than any carbon-trapping technologies so far, researchers claim. For this reason, many of the technologies today use carbon in different forms to capture atmospheric CO2. The …

How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe
6 years, 3 months ago

How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe

NPR  

How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeff Brady/NPR Jeff Brady/NPR At a major climate meeting in Poland, nearly 200 countries are trying to reach a deal on dramatically reducing carbon emissions. Enlarge this image toggle caption Carbon Engineering Carbon Engineering The process of capturing CO2 starts with …

Carbon Capture Is Messy and Fraught—But Might Be Essential
6 years, 5 months ago

Carbon Capture Is Messy and Fraught—But Might Be Essential

Wired  

On paper, carbon capture is a simple proposition: Take carbon that we’ve pulled out of the Earth in the form of coal and oil and put into the atmosphere, and pull it out of the atmosphere and put it back in the Earth. Direct air capture, as it’s known, is one of several negative emissions technologies, or NETs, that the …

US scientists call for carbon dioxide scrubbing programme in fight against climate change
6 years, 5 months ago

US scientists call for carbon dioxide scrubbing programme in fight against climate change

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. To meet the climate goals laid out under …

Cleaning up carbon emissions the priority in fight againt climate change: Report
6 years, 5 months ago

Cleaning up carbon emissions the priority in fight againt climate change: Report

Firstpost  

Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air. That’s the equivalent of about twice the yearly emissions of the US Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, and emissions have been rising. “These technologies will clearly help since we have screwed up a …

Report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up
6 years, 5 months ago

Report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The nation needs to ramp up efforts to suck heat-trapping gases out of the air to fight climate change, a new U.S. report said. That’s the equivalent of about twice the yearly emissions of the U.S. Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, and emissions have been rising. “These …

The Potential Pitfalls of Sucking Carbon From the Atmosphere
6 years, 9 months ago

The Potential Pitfalls of Sucking Carbon From the Atmosphere

Wired  

Last week, Canadian company Carbon Engineering published research findings that show how carbon dioxide could be sucked up from the atmosphere for less than $100 per ton. Scientists have long speculated that so-called "negative emissions" technologies like CO 2 removal could not only slow the accumulation of carbon in the air, but even reverse it. LEARN MORE The WIRED Guide …

The science of capturing carbon
7 years, 3 months ago

The science of capturing carbon

Al Jazeera  

Scientists are fighting to curtail the dangerous effects of climate change by capturing carbon dioxide. by Sigurdur Gislason, University of Iceland Scientists at NASA have also collected evidence which indicates increased levels of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere are behind these rising temperatures and therefore indirectly responsible for the extreme droughts, storms and unusual weather events the world is witnessing …

Swiss firm Climeworks begins sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in fight against climate change
7 years, 3 months ago

Swiss firm Climeworks begins sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in fight against climate change

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Swiss company has opened what is believed to be the world’s first ‘commercial’ plant …

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