Battery-like device absorbs CO2. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-low-cost-battery-like-device-absorbs-co2.html
Archive for the ‘carbon capture and storage’ Category:
2022-04-20 Are You Paying For A Worthless Gas Plant?
Every consumer should understand this very important article about the economic reality of building a gas fired power plant. The term Stranded Asset should be explained. The electric power producers are not making decisions that are in the best interests of their customers and shareholders. The banks should be required to finance new fossil fuel
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2022-03-24 Oxy To Spend Up To 1B$ On DAC Plants
Occidental plans on building DAC – direct air capture CO2 plants in the Permian Basin. Capture a million tons a year; more than all 19 plants now capture. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/occidental-plans-275-million-2022-carbon-capture-projects-2022-03-23/
2022-02-26 Carbon Removal, Sequestration From Sea Water
UCLA is researching a method of removing CO2 from sea water, where it is much more concentrated than in the atmosphere. This also makes hydrogen which can be used to power the plant. Shows diagram and gives a link to research. https://abc7.com/amp/ucla-researchers-propose-removing-carbon-dioxide-ocean-climate-change/11600047/
2021-10-12 Artificial Photosynthesis To Turn CO2 Into Fuels
This 6 min. YouTube video talks about using sunlight to change CO2 into green fuel. I still think it’s not doing anything to reduce the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere. https://youtu.be/l5_vrdA4uCg
2021-09-26 The Carbon Cycle – NASA
These NASA web pages explain the carbon cycle. The document is at least 10 years old and the references are even older, but not a lot has changed. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle/page1.php
2021-07-19 Carbon Capture And Sequestration, DAC
This long article is about carbon capture and sequestration with a section on DAC direct air capture. We must reduce the 410 parts per million in our atmosphere! Quote: << Lackner says DAC is a good fit with renewable energy. If a natural gas power plant is off because of low demand, so is any
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2021-07-12 CO2 To Syngas Using Sabatier Process
Read Applications section for pilot plants that use CO2 to make CH4 that can be used in the existing natural gas system. Also it’s being used to power a fleet of cars. Only problem with CO2 capture to syngas is that it doesn’t permanently remove the CO2 from the atmosphere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction Quote: << The Sabatier
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2021-07-10 Food Made From Captured Carbon
This is something I haven’t read about, a way to capture CO2 and use it and microbes to grow protein. https://www.dezeen.com/2021/06/29/carbon-solar-foods-pasi-vainikka-solein/ It says we exhale much of the carbon we eat. I started thinking about the possibility of someday we would wear a breathing apparatus that captures the CO2 we exhale and use something, possibly
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2021-05-18 Hydrogen Replacing Methane Pros, Cons
This Youtube video Engineering With Rosie interviews a chemical engineer who talks about the problems of replacing some or all of the natural gas with hydrogen. Hydrogen has higher energy per unit weight, but it is much less dense than methane so it has much less energy per unit volume. The natural gas system has
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