WHAT IS CARBON CAPTURING AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
5 years, 6 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 carbon dioxide; transporting the carbon dioxide; and securely storing the carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon capture technologies allow the separation of carbon dioxide from gases produced in electricity generation and industrial processes by one of three methods: pre-combustion capture; post-combustion capture; and oxyfuel com­bustion. The carbon dioxide is then stored in carefully selected geological rock formation that are typically located several miles below the earth's surface.

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The ‘last resort’ material that can soak up CO2 directly from the air
7 months ago

The ‘last resort’ material that can soak up CO2 directly from the air

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 low-cost, energy-efficient method is capable of making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly …

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
7 months, 3 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 …

Carbon capture, storage emerge as a contentious issue after COP28 meet
1 year 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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 …

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, 5 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, 5 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 …

Biden administration invests in carbon capture, upping pressure on industry to show results
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden administration invests in carbon capture, upping pressure on industry to show results

Associated Press  

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in seven states, aiming to reduce planet-warming pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities. Climate Envoy John Kerry, the government is increasing pressure on the carbon capture and storage industry to show that the technology can significantly help combat climate change. “Deploying the safe and …

Carbon capture startup Climeworks removes CO2 from atmosphere in ‘industry first’
1 year, 11 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 …

What is carbon capture and storage, and could it help halt the climate crisis?
2 years, 9 months ago

What is carbon capture and storage, and could it help halt the climate crisis?

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. According to the International Energy Agency the strengthening of climate goals and new investment incentives "are delivering unprecedented momentum …

Carbon capture and storage: does it work, and does it mean we can keep burning fossil fuels?
3 years, 2 months ago

Carbon capture and storage: does it work, and does it mean we can keep burning fossil fuels?

ABC  

Does Australia have a bad reputation on climate change? According to the US Department of Energy's Carbon Capture and Storage Database, there are 43 active sites where carbon capture and storage is taking place worldwide, including enhanced oil recovery projects. But critics, including Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute, say carbon capture and storage is a government fossil fuel handout, …

Have we solved the carbon capture conundrum?
3 years, 2 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, 3 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, 4 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 …

A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground
3 years, 9 months 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
3 years, 10 months 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 …

New technology removes carbon dioxide from the air at any concentration level: Study
5 years, 2 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 …

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