Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently

Journal written by houbou (1097327) and posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 01, @02:55AM

from the install-anywhere dept.

Canadian scientists have created a device that efficiently removes CO2 from the atmosphere."The proposed air capture system differs from existing carbon capture and storage technology ... while CCS involves installing equipment at, say, a coal-fired power plant to capture CO2 produced during the coal-burning process, ... air capture machines will be able to literally remove the CO2 present in ambient air everywhere. [The team used] ... a custom-built tower to capture CO2 directly from the air while requiring less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity per tonne of carbon dioxide."