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Del Birmingham

Iceland Carbon Capture Project Quickly Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Stone | Science | S... - 0 views

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    pilot project that sought to demonstrate that carbon dioxide emissions could be locked up by turning them into rock appears to be a success. Tests at the CarbFix project in Iceland indicate that most of the CO2 injected into basalt turned into carbonate minerals in less than two years, far shorter a time than the hundreds or thousands of years that scientists had once thought such a process would take. Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/iceland-carbon-capture-project-quickly-converts-carbon-dioxide-stone-180959365/#GpYzrDcLOjF1tUZx.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
Adriana Trujillo

Clean Coal Test: Power Plants Prepare to Capture Carbon - 0 views

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    Southern Co.'s coal plants are among the biggest carbon emitters in the U.S., but the company is about to build a new carbon-capture plant that could play a vital role in slowing climate change. The Mississippi plant, along with another in Canada, will capture carbon emissions and pump them into depleted oil reservoirs
Adriana Trujillo

Indian firm makes carbon capture breakthrough | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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    India-based Carbon Clean Solutions has developed a technique to turn harmful carbon dioxide emissions into sodium carbonate. Several other companies want to acquire the technology and use the soda ash that's produced to manufacture baking soda, glass, detergents and sweeteners.
Adriana Trujillo

Extracting carbon from nature can aid climate but will be costly: U.N. | Reuters - 0 views

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    A new technology called bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS, could potentially eliminate the equivalent of China's total carbon emissions from the planet's atmosphere, dramatically slowing the rate of climate change, according to a draft U.N. report. The system, which involves capturing and burying carbon emissions from burning biomass, has not yet been tested at scale but is increasingly seen as "an essential component" of any effort to tackle climate change, the report notes.
Adriana Trujillo

World's First Carbon Capture and Storage at Coal Plant Operating · Environmen... - 1 views

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    SaskPower began full operation of its flagship carbon capture and storage project at the Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan yesterday, making it the world's first commercial scale carbon capture and storage facility at a coal-fired power plant.
Adriana Trujillo

EPA Issues Carbon Capture Rule · Environmental Management & Energy News · Env... - 0 views

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    The EPA yesterday issued a final rule that the agency says will help create a consistent national framework to ensure the safe and effective deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies.
Adriana Trujillo

Construction hits midway point on Shell's Quest carbon-capture project (with video) - 0 views

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    The $1.35 billion Quest carbon capture and storage project in Canada being developed by Shell Canada is now half finished. There are 600 workers on the project, scheduled to become operational late next year. When completed, the facility will reduce direct carbon dioxide emissions by 1 million tons per year, "equivalent to taking 175,000 cars off the road," the article notes
Adriana Trujillo

In Switzerland, a giant new machine is sucking carbon directly from the air | Science |... - 1 views

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    Swiss company Climeworks has opened the world's first commercial carbon capture plant in Switzerland. The plant will capture around 900 tons of CO2 from the air annually.
Adriana Trujillo

Ford Using Captured Carbon to Make Plastic Car Parts · Environmental Leader ·... - 0 views

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    Ford is developing new foam and plastic car components made from carbon dioxide. It expects the new biomaterials, produced by Novomer and still undergoing testing, will be in Ford production vehicles within the next five years.
Adriana Trujillo

Plastic made from pollution hits U.S. market - 0 views

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    Two childhood friends spent a decade, beginning in college, figuring out how to cheaply make plastic from carbon that's been captured from the atmosphere.
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    Two childhood friends have teamed up to market AirCarbon, a plastic produced using carbon drawn from industrial atmospheric emissions. Their process could enable carbon-negative manufacturing. "I wish I had been smart enough to figure this out," says William Dowd, a former biotechnology research director at Dow Chemical. "I was astounded by what they were able to do
Adriana Trujillo

Beyond emissions: The promise of products from captured carbon | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    At VERGE 2015, a group of scientists and entrepreneurs talked about the innovation opportunities in carbon removal
Del Birmingham

Can Carbon Capture Technology Be Part of the Climate Solution? by David Biello: Yale En... - 0 views

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    Some scientists and analysts are touting carbon capture and storage as a necessary tool for avoiding catastrophic climate change. But critics of the technology regard it as simply another way of perpetuating a reliance on fossil fuels.
Adriana Trujillo

Carbon Dioxide-Reducing Cement Advances · Environmental Management & Energy N... - 0 views

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    Startup company Solidia Technologies and the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have partnered to accelerate the development of cement that can reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by up to 70 percent.
Adriana Trujillo

Don't waste CO2, turn it into bottles and glue - tech - 06 March 2014 - New Scientist#.... - 1 views

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    IF HUMANITY is to avoid dangerous climate change, we need to capture hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide. But what to do with it all? There is no shortage of places to bury it (see "Trailblazing power plant is first to bury its carbon"), but we can at least put some of it to good use. A few start-up companies view CO2 as a resource rather than a waste product. They are using CO2 as the raw material for making products including superglue and fertiliser.
Adriana Trujillo

BBC News - Norway to develop fish food from captured carbon dioxide - 0 views

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    Norway is pioneering the use of captured carbon emissions to grow an algal soup that can be used as food for farmed fish, helping to reduce overfishing of the wild krill upon which fish farms more typically rely.
Adriana Trujillo

Trending: Clay-Based Concrete, Upcycled Waste Latest Innovations in Sustainable Buildin... - 0 views

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    The days of conventional concrete and carbon-intensive building materials are waning. Along with promising advancements such as concrete made from biofuel waste, carbonate rock made from captured CO2 emissions, and a smart gypsum board that can help regulate room temperatures, three recent innovations in material development illustrate the intensifying search for more sustainable materials - from city streets to cement production plants
Adriana Trujillo

$8B Available for Carbon Capture, Other Advanced Fossil Energy Projects · Env... - 0 views

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    The Department of Energy has made available $8 billion in loan guarantee authority to support advanced fossil energy projects that avoid, reduce or sequester greenhouse gases.
Adriana Trujillo

Halifax firm reusing CO2 to make greener concrete blocks - 1 views

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    Canada's CarbonCure Technologies uses carbon dioxide produced during the cement-making process to fill tiny voids in concrete blocks. As a result, the block absorbs less water, is 20% stronger and more sustainable, according to this article. Builders can use the product to help set them apart from competitors and can "reduce the cost of their production by harnessing the material benefits of CO2, such as high early strength, lower water absorption, and other secondary benefits," says Robert Niven, the company's founder
Adriana Trujillo

These Enormous Fans Suck CO2 Out Of The Air And Turn It Into Fuel | Co.Exist | ideas + ... - 0 views

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    Carbon Engineering has one idea for taking dangerous greenhouse gas emissions out of the air. It sounds like it's from a cartoon, but it's real life.
Del Birmingham

How Far Can Technology Go to Stave Off Climate Change? - Yale E360 - 0 views

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    With carbon dioxide emissions continuing to rise, an increasing number of experts believe major technological breakthroughs - such as CO2 air capture - will be necessary to slow global warming. But without the societal will to decarbonize, even the best technologies won't be enough.
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