As the bubbles move through the liquid metal, the gas molecule splits up to form flakes of solid carbon, with the reaction taking just a split second.
Category: Carbon sequestration
Safer Carbon Capture and Storage
The UK government recently selected four sites to develop multi-billion-pound CCS projects as part of its scheme to cut 20-30m tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030 from heavy industry. Other countries…
Friday Funny: That Giant Sucking Sound – CO2 Edition
One of the dumbest yet at the same time accurate political statements ever came from former presidential candidate H.Ross Perot, who was commenting during a debate about the trade imbalance…
Oceanic Hubris
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My friend Matt was kind enough to forward me some links to a new scheme for sequestering carbon in the areas of the ocean that…
Morrison to link $500 million for new technologies to easing way for carbon capture and storage
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Wednesday announce $500 million towards a new $1 billion fund to promote investment in Australian companies to develop low-emissions technologies.
Kemper Coal Gasification & Storage Plant Imploded (Obama’s climate ‘centerpiece’ bites the dust)
The quick fix of coal gasification and CO2 storage is all but dead. Projects will continue, and the subsidies will flow if Biden gets his way. But it is greenwashing…
A Tale of Two CCS Worlds
Guest “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” by David Middleton “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was…
Gulf Coast ready to develop carbon storage hub
The stage is set for a new carbon storage economy to emerge along the Gulf Coast, according to a study led by The University of Texas at Austin, with the…
Energy Transition: Blue Oil Edition
Guest “Responding to a reader request” by David Middleton Hat tip to Mike Higton for requesting a deeper dive into “Blue Oil” Mike was referring to this post of mine…
Sulfur enhances carbon storage in the Black Sea
They found that almost a fifth of the organic molecules in the anoxic areas of the Black Sea contained sulfur – significantly more than in other seas. In addition, the…
Fungus creates a fast track for carbon
The exact amount of carbon diverted to fungus from the microbial merry-go-round may differ in other environments. But the discovery that it can be as high as 20 percent in…
UK invests over £30 million in large-scale greenhouse gas removal
Research teams across the UK will investigate the viability of five innovative methods of large-scale greenhouse gas removal from the atmosphere to help the UK reach its legislated Net Zero…
Companies announce world’s first CO2-free gas plants
Unlike at a conventional natural gas plant, the energy startup’s technology burns natural gas with pure oxygen, instead of the air, only producing carbon dioxide and water as byproducts. Most…
Thicker-leaved tropical plants may flourish as CO2 rises, which could be good for climate
“Our work suggests that by shifting which plants are growing in the forest there may be less dire consequences of higher CO2 than other studies have suggested,” Swann said. “There…
Plant Growth Takes A Steep Toll On The Soil – Supposedly
Wow! Who would have thought that? When a plant grows, it extracts nutrients and carbon from the soil and converts that into its roots and stem and flowers and seeds.…
Changes in ocean chemistry show how sea level affects global carbon cycle
“The new type of information we can read from the stable strontium isotopes now allows us to take a close look at the business end of the global carbon cycle,…
Cheaper carbon capture is on the way
RICHLAND, Wash.–As part of a marathon research effort to lower the cost of carbon capture, chemists have now demonstrated a method to seize carbon dioxide (CO2) that reduces costs by…
New factor in the carbon cycle of the Southern Ocean identified
“In doing so, we were able to demonstrate for the first time a manganese limitation for phytoplankton growth in the center of Drake Passage. Closer to shore, iron was the…
Elon Musk Offers $100 Million for the Best Carbon Capture Technology
Remember all those assurances we’ve heard over the years, that carbon capture technology is ready for mainstream deployment? Turns out the technology is a little less ready to deploy than…
Latest Climate Change Solution: Direct Air Capture Powered by Geothermal Energy
Why bother with capturing concentrated CO2 from combustion exhaust, when you can spend “a wartime level of funding” capturing trace concentrations of CO2 directly out of the air?
Aussie Brown Coal to Clean Hydrogen Plant will Address Carbon Capture “Eventually”
Proponents are celebrating Kawasaki Heavy Industry’s planned construction of a coal to hydrogen plant in Victoria, which is intended to prove the viability of the clean hydrogen supply chain. Just…
Robot probes the Red Sea’s carbon storage system
Warming waters and oxygen depletion in the Red Sea could slow the flow of organic carbon from the surface into the deep ocean where it can be stored, out of…
Ottawa’s latest climate plan bets on expensive and unproven carbon capture technologies
Last week, the federal government released its long awaited plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Bill C-12, if passed, commits Canada to “binding” targets every five years…
Study: Humanity “is beyond the point-of-no-return” on Climate Change
A pair of researchers from the Norwegian Business School have produced a climate prognosis so profoundly depressing even Katharine Hayhoe has publicly complained about it.
