Carbon-capturing Material Invented in Alberta Could Help Industry Reduce Emissions and Costs. An team from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Engineering characterized a CO2-capturing microporous material developed by a group led by George Shimizu at the University of Calgary that attracts...
The World’s Largest Direct Air Capture and CO2 Storage Plant is ON. On the 8th September 2021, Carbfix started injecting CO2 captured by Climeworks’ Orca plant constituting the world’s first commercial direct air capture and storage chain. The Orca plant has the capacity of capturing 4,000 tons...
Effectively Removing CO2 from the Atmosphere. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have investigated the extent to which direct capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the ambient air can help to effectively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The result: With...
Household Waste and Sewage to be Used in Jet Fuel Production. Eight UK companies have been shortlisted to receive a share of £15m to develop production plants that will turn waste into jet fuel. Shortlisted proposals include plants aiming to produce jet fuel from: carbon dioxide captured...
How Crushed Rocks can Help Capture Carbon Dioxide. IIASA researchers and international colleagues explored the potential of using finely ground rock to help with the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere on the road to achieving net-zero emissions and keeping global warming below 1.5°C. In their...
Innovative Process that Removes Key Hurdle for Next-Generation Solar Cells is also a Lockbox for Greenhouse Gases. Perovskite solar cells have progressed in recent years with rapid increases in power conversion efficiency (from 3% in 2006 to 25.5% today), making them more competitive with...
Could Carbon Capture Work in the Glass Manufacturing Sector? In an article published in Glass International , Dr James Wheatley, Dr Douglas Barnes and Dr Helen Atkinson discuss a laboratory-based evaluation of the lifetime and degradation of C-Capture’s carbon capture system to assess the...
New Catalyst for Lower Carbon Dioxide Emissions. If the CO 2 content of the atmosphere is not to increase any further, carbon dioxide must be converted into something else. However, as CO 2 is a very stable molecule, this can only be done with the help of special catalysts. The main problem...
A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide From the Air. Increasingly, scientists are recognizing that negative emissions technologies (NETs) to remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be an essential component in the strategy to mitigate climate change. Lawrence Berkeley National...
SSE Thermal and Equinor Join Forces on Plans for First-of-a-Kind Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Projects in the Humber. Equinor and SSE Thermal have today unveiled plans to jointly develop two first-of-a-kind, low-carbon power stations in the UK’s Humber region, comprising one of the UK’s first...