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A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
The new subsidy, modeled broadly on ones for renewable energy, gave developers a credit topping out at $50 for every ton of waste carbon dioxide they captured and geologically stored.
Wired • The Big Business of Burying Carbon
effect, we’d find a way to take carbon out of the air (using plants or some other method) and put it into a bottle or other plastic product, where it would stay for decades or centuries, with no additional emissions.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Just as there are lots of ways to add CO2 to the air, there are lots of ways—potentially—to remove it. A technique known as “enhanced weathering” is a sort of upside-down version of the project I toured at the Hellisheiði Power Station. Instead of injecting CO2 deep into rock, the idea is to bring the rock up to the surface to meet the CO2. Basalt
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
With all of these alternatives, the challenge is much the same as with direct air capture: scale. Ning Zeng is a professor at the University of Maryland and the author of the “wood harvest and storage” concept. He has calculated that to sequester five billion tons of carbon per year, ten million tree-burial trenches, each the size of an Olympic swi
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Every deal made at Lowercarbon Capitol has the potential for more than 1 gigaton of carbon removal