Scaling carbon capture might Mean Thinking Small, Not Big
3 years, 2 months ago

Scaling carbon capture might Mean Thinking Small, Not Big

Live Mint  

A London-based startup is shrinking the size of carbon capture plants as it tries to popularize a green technology that’s been slow to expand beyond limited applications. Carbon capture could be a key way for companies to eliminate their emissions quickly as governments issue net-zero mandates before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. “The only way you can scale up carbon capture between now and 2030 is if it’s modular and mass produced,” said Aniruddha Sharma, Carbon Clean’s co-founder & chief executive officer. “You would expect to see the kinds of cost reductions they're claiming.” Carbon Clean’s also working on a business plan that would have it operate as a service provider, where it would install the technology and charge to capture emissions, either on a per-ton basis or for a fixed monthly price.

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Carbon-capture projects launch in Los Angeles County
6 months, 2 weeks 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
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. …

Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in ‘carbon removal’
1 year, 4 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 …

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 …

World's biggest carbon capture plant running at one third capacity, Chevron Australia reveals
1 year, 7 months ago

World's biggest carbon capture plant running at one third capacity, Chevron Australia reveals

ABC  

United States oil and gas giant Chevron has acknowledged its flagship carbon capture and storage project off Australia's north-west coast is operating at just a third of its capacity as problems bedevil the facility. Key points: The plant off WA's north opened six years ago but has been plagued by operating problems since Chevron Australia's David Fallon stressed the project …

Carbon removal technologies to get $3.5B federal investment
2 years, 7 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 …

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, 9 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 …

Tata Chemicals plans UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
5 years, 6 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 …

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