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New ‘game-changing’ technology removes 99% of carbon dioxide from the air
Engineers from the University of Delaware developed a method for effectively capturing 99 percent of carbon dioxide from the air using an electrochemical system powered by hydrogen, a press statement reveals.
Aside from boosting the overall performance of carbon capture technology, the new method could also enable the commercial production of more sustainable fuel cells.
Capturing 99% of CO2 from the air
The new system, outlined in a new paper in the journal Nature Energy, was actually born out of a setback in another research project. The team behind the new technology was originally working on hydroxide exchange membrane (HEM) fuel cells, a more affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional acid-based fuel cells. While working on that technology, the team was faced with a serious obstacle. HEM fuel cells, they found, are very sensitive to carbon dioxide in the air, making it hard for the batteries to function properly.
Fast forward a few years later, and the researchers that once tried to combat the effects of carbon dioxide on HEM fuel cells are now using it to our advantage. “Once we dug into the mechanism, we realized the fuel cells were capturing just about every bit of carbon dioxide that came into them, and they were really good at separating it to the other side,” said Brian Setzler, a co-author on the paper.
The team leveraged the built-in “self-purging” process seen in HEM fuel cells to create a carbon dioxide separator that could be placed upstream from their fuel cell stacks. “It turns out our approach is very effective. We can capture 99 percent of the carbon dioxide out of the air in one pass if we have the right design and right configuration,” said study lead and UD Professor Yushan Yan.
Carbon capture: silver bullet or dangerous distraction?
Today, the team has a more compact system that is capable of filtering greater quantities of air. According to the researchers, their soda can-sized early prototype device is capable of filtering roughly 10 liters of air per minute and of removing about 98 percent of CO2. What’s more, they found that a smaller electrochemical cell measuring 2 inches by 2 inches could be used to continuously remove roughly 99 percent of CO2 found in the air flowing at a rate of approximately two liters per minute.
The team’s prototype is designed to scrub CO2 out of a vehicle’s exhaust, though it could also be used for a number of other applications, including aircraft, spacecraft, and submarines.
While the new system has great potential for improving carbon capture as a whole, some scientists have cautioned that carbon capture will not be enough to avert the climate crisis. In fact, in July last year, scientists from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law went as far as writing that carbon capture was a “dangerous distraction” that could be used as an excuse to slow the transition away from fossil fuel consumption. Nevertheless, several large carbon capture projects are currently in the works, including a new carbon capture facility in Scotland that will remove up to 1 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year.
32 Comments on "New ‘game-changing’ technology removes 99% of carbon dioxide from the air"
Outcast_Searcher on Sat, 5th Feb 2022 10:43 am
1). No doubt, science will continue to enable us to do new things, and better. CO2 mitigation won’t be an exception.
2). But at what cost? This most certainly won’t be free financially or in terms of energy use. Or in terms of material use, waste and waste disposal, or efforts diverted from other forms of progress. No matter how the economy is structured (including if Elon Musk / Tesla come up with humanoid robots capable of doing lots of work to replace lots of human laborers, for example — economic output is finite. More carbon capture production means less of something else, like food or energy or medical care, etc.
3). Before something like this is scaled up into massive size needed to put a meaningful dent into the CO2 problem, it should be evaluated in a broad context, to see if it’s worth it.
4). One million tons of CO2 removed from the atmosphere a year, re the example given at the end of the article, by an entire factory is a case in point re the cost.
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So, a reasonable question is, is a million tons of CO2 removal making a serious dent, from an entire factory dedicated to that? Let’s look at it in terms of driving a typical ICE car, for example.
Every gallon of gasoline burned produces roughly 20 pounds of CO2, due to the chemical reactions involved, even though a gallon of gasoline only weighs roughly 6.3 pounds.
So for every 100 gallons of gasoline burned produces about one English system ton of CO2. Or every 110 gallons of gasoline burned produces about one Metric Tonne of CO2 (I think Metric Tonne is the more common measurement used globally).
The EPA estimates about 4.6 metric tons of CO2 emitted per year from US passenger cars on average (which seems low, given the mileage estimate, but is in the ballpark for this sort of back of the envelope exercise).
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle
Round numbers, there are about 290 million cars registered in the US, as of the end of 2021.
https://financesonline.com/number-of-cars-in-the-us/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Hedges%20Company,of%20America%20(Hedges%20Company).
So the total CO2 produced just from those cars annually is roughly 290 million * 4.6 tons of CO2 per car, or: 1,334,000,000 (one and a third billion tonnes of CO2).
So it would take 1334 factories like that from the Scotland carbon capture facility just to remove THAT CO2 from the air.
How much would THAT cost in money and resources and energy?
To me, it’s pretty obvious that expecting we can just create all the CO2 we want to support our collective lifestyles and wants, and that CO2 capture will “save us” is pure madness, until proven otherwise.
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 5th Feb 2022 10:58 am
“Hey Donzo, when you lose an election by over 7 million votes, do you really think Mikey is the guy who can get you outta that?”
Question for a moronic traitor?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/5/2078734/-Question-for-a-moronic-traitor
Theedrich on Sat, 5th Feb 2022 11:00 am
The United States is run by criminals. BOTH parties. They care nothing about the thousands of lives destroyed by the narcotics stealthily allowed in by bribed politicians, let alone the millions of devastated families.
All the citizenry gets is mumbo jumbo about caring for “the children” (Pelosi) or drivel about humanitarian concern for “underprivileged” asylum-seeking lower primates, especially darkskinned ones. Fake concern about global warming and pollution (which in themselves are real) is also a major theme in the politically controlled media, with all kinds of distraction and diversions from reality. The masses, long taught to indulge in fake “patriotism,” are steeped in delusion by anti-White hypocrites using quasi-religious videos accompanied by sappy music and extreme close-ups of teary faces. Or by scary warnings about evil, evil Russia and the like. Nothing about the secret mass murders the U.S. commits directly or through third parties. Even now the U.S. — primary and all-time master of false flags from Fort Sumter through the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor, to the Lusitania, to the deliberately provoked, engineered and completely foreknown Pearl Harbor attack, to the Tonkin Gulf, to Iraqi WMDs under Saddam Hussein, and many other falsifications — is accusing Russia of planning a false flag operation to attack Ukraine. That accusation could be used as a excuse to send lots of weapons to the corrupt Ukrainians in return for their bribes to Hunter Biden & Co., as well as to enrich the Military-Industrial Complex. (Never mind, of course, the invasion of ThirdWorlders into the U.S. through our southern border.) As it turned out, after our accusing bribe-ocrat regime could not produce any proof, the new narrative became that its “exposure” of the evil Russian plot had forced the Russians to abandon it. No matter. The MIC will still get the money to defeat the unspeakable evilness of [non-U.S.] false-flagism).
The political system — legislative, executive and judicial — is a rats’ nest of bribed or politically pressured, amoral puppets who would sell their own mothers for money from globemaster megabillionaires. The military-industrial complex is fully locked into the same massive syndicate, one completely unknown to or ignored by the population. It is oblivious to the deathly trajectory of the entire “democratic” exercise, and keeps voting as commanded by their respective media outlets. The national sewer is also sucking down the rest of Western civilization, just as the globalist paymasters have planned.
Chosenite-Cretinity is a major part of this vast suicide drift, and its declining-IQ masses are willfully sinking ever further into quicksand.
Hardships, crises and difficulties coming from outside may be survivable.
But the demise engineered by traitors from within results in certain and total annihilation.
Biden's hairplug on Sat, 5th Feb 2022 12:00 pm
Yesterday:
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkca09EHRI
At some point, the Brexit chap asks Hanson if the US empire is dead… ambiguous answer.
Today:
Victor Davis Hanson | The Failure of Globalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99i8Sb1krDQ
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 5th Feb 2022 7:00 pm
“Supposing you brought a light inside the body, ultraviolet or just very powerful light, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, like your throat or your asshole, or drank some bleach” Trump said.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 6th Feb 2022 5:34 pm
Trump’s election advisers were like ‘snake oil salesmen’, ex-Pence aide says
Let’s not put down “snake oil salesmen” by comparing them to the Fat Boys election advisors.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 6th Feb 2022 8:11 pm
“Republicans recommend social distancing, quarantine, and masking your face, especially your eyes, if you ever find yourself in close contact with a book”
Biden’s hairplug on Sun, 6th Feb 2022 11:22 pm
Trudeau attracted severe case of COWARD-19:
https://youtu.be/oUJiIedUxjY
Ottawa in state of emergency, Trudeau fled the country?
Biden’s hairplug on Sun, 6th Feb 2022 11:27 pm
Can the anti-white Canadian state be brought down?
https://www.infowars.com/posts/ottawa-mayor-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-ongoing-freedom-convoy-protests/
https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2022/01/justin-trudeau-scheming-to-replace-white-mysogynistic-and-racist-truckers-with-immigrant-indians.html
“Justin Trudeau Scheming To Replace White “Mysogynistic and Racist” Truckers With Immigrant Indians!“
One thing is certain: Russia and China can do what they want!
YouTimeIsUp on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 12:56 am
Coventry camp is still standing by the way , the cops only took purple fuel jerry can , police photo op for psychological warfare . HOLD THE LINE , stay strong , peaceful and united , you have the Fringe watching your six . Could expand the trucks perimeter too if needed .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhtXBXV7L18
I think this event send a good warning to our enemies, the controllers of earth reality, that we mean business here. We are currently dismantling the financial system and we are also dismantling the police and justice system you use to control earth population. This Canada trucker protest is important, it is sending a clear message to the controller of the earth that your time is up. Next step is your execution including everyone that came on earth ahd hide itself with a holographic cost.
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 10:26 am
Is this getting only worse?
https://i.imgflip.com/1bmpet.jpg
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 10:53 am
“The Epstein Files: US Bureau of Prisons bent facts to support suicide narrative”
https://www.rt.com/news/548335-epstein-us-bureau-prison/
I wouldn’t be surprised if Epstein were still alive and sipping from his cappuccino on a beach café terrace in Tel Aviv, reading the NYT as we speak.
Hello on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 12:52 pm
>>> Is this getting only worse?
I know. I was watching some creepy joe clips on youtube. Is this guy for real? I mean, did YOU vote for that idiot? No wonder the US is going down the drain with idiots like you voting for other idiots. Did you get your highschool diploma because of affirmative action? Must be.
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 1:23 pm
Jews R#1
SomeOfMyMusing on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 2:26 pm
The trucker convoy should be used for more then the removing of vaccine mandate.
A lot can be achieve in term of dismantling the the political, judicial and policing system using the truckers convoy in Canada.
This is a goal mine of opportunities in term of dismantling the system and removing the control that the controllers of earth have over earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIfskg7WNLE
SomeOfMyMusing on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 2:53 pm
The fact that I cannot find others Whites humans like me around where I lived, is pointing to a planed and voluntary genocide of the Whites human race. Earth will make an example for the rest of the universe.
Mass execution of none White humans will be the example for the rest of the universe.
SomeOfMyMusing on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 3:05 pm
For more than 50 years I thought I was surrounded by humans. 50 years later I discover that you were not humans. I might be one of the last few Whites humans left on this earth. This is called a genocide and the sentence is mass execution if you are not a real White human.
SomeOfMyMusing on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 3:28 pm
The hatred you have shown toward me for my whole life is something I will never forget. You knew I was not like you. You still hate me because I am a White human. I can see it in your eyes and your body language, you hated me all my life. You will never stop hating me, might as well execute all of you.
SomeOfMyMusing on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 4:37 pm
I have a TV screen to which I connect my laptop. It is 30 inch wide by 20 inch high. We I turn off my computer, a box appear saying no signal. Even that fuckin box saying no signal is a holographic projection. I see two sources of energy one coming up and one coming down merging together where the no signal box is displayed on my TV screen. Every data you store on your PC or Laptop hard drive is stores somewhere. You PC or Laptop hard drive is false and contain no data. All data’s about your life, like the type of PC you have, the color of clothing and so store somewhere. Most likely in your energetic structure coming with your organic body.
Biden’s hairplug on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 5:51 pm
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 1:23 pm
Jews R#1
Not much longer.
Your ilk is on the way out.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/the-good-news-zog-is-dying/
We in Europe are going to play the Russian card.
https://www.rt.com/russia/548597-putin-macron-talks-ukraine/
Progress appears to have been made.
ItIsPayBackTime on Mon, 7th Feb 2022 10:38 pm
There is a rumors that Trudeau left the Canada. Therefore Canada government/political system has collapse. We should keep Canada in a state a collapse to prove that we don’t need need them. Just keep the essential services running coast guard, postal service and stop parliamentary session. Show the government and police system as being incompetent and incapable of solving problems. Governments officials should look disoriented, depressed and frighten for their life. It is pay back time. We are going to show to the controller of the earth, the we control everything and can collapse government of any nation if we want to.
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SomeOfMyMusing on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 8:32 am
It is time to remove the mask mandate mask. The slow down of the economy and dismantling of the political system, economical system and trade system can be done with raising interest rate. We don’t need the mask to scare them anymore. A collapsing political system and economical system will do the same job. Plus now we know what we wanted to know using the mask, the White race is extinct because of planed and voluntary actions leading to its genocide.
By removing the mask, we will see red faces better. I think it is time to increase the number of red faces we see around in the media. Now we are moving to the execution phase including the dismantled of political and economical system. I don’t give a shit if this kill me, as long as I see them dying before me.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 11:02 am
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
— Mark Twain
Biden’s hairplug on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 12:17 pm
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
— Mark Twain“
Donkey Idaho in a rare moment of introspection.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/wake-up-call/
“We now enter a period of danger as the sleepwalkers of America awaken from their induced consensus trance and begin to understand how they were harmed, swindled, and robbed by a corrupt, criminal officialdom. It will hurt badly because the public wanted so desperately to believe that vaccines would make them safe from the mysteriously conjured Covid-19 virus — and, more than that, would cure their gnawing anxiety over the wreckage of American life caused by what appears to be leadership hostage to sinister forces.
I must say, I believe the truth of our predicament will grow a whole lot weirder as we stumble into springtime. The weirdest part of all will be when America learns exactly who and what have been the prime generators of our disorder. The disillusionment will be cosmic.“
Dredd on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 2:22 pm
“Carbon capture: silver bullet or dangerous distraction?”
Neither, it is a typical distraction (click bait misrepresenting the Journal paper it claims to discuss).
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SomeOfMyMusing on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 6:15 pm
I love this. Pushing the system toward failure by pushing societal policies that caused the problem in the first. Using the system to collapse the system. I see you don’t care about man. Pushing man to abandon society and accelerating its collapse. I approved.
Joining the minister are Jane McKenna, associate minister of children and women’s issues; Cheryl Perera, founder and president of One Child; and Jim MacSween, chief of the York Regional Police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79J1c4ccTWU
elite whitey supertard Dr. Reiner Fuellmich Grand Jury Trial - Covid Vaccine Crimes Against Humanity - Nuremberg 2.0 on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 6:28 pm
next we want to put global MUZZ on trial
please feel at ease among friends
we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
SomeOfMyMusing on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 6:36 pm
Love this , the red cancerous face with a bloody spot on the lower lips. I guess the Joows are not the chosen people of GOD anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFbeOkMflK8
SomeOfMyMusing on Tue, 8th Feb 2022 7:04 pm
This is starting to resemble to the face of a cat. First you will be changed into an animal, then you will executed with deadly facial skin cancer and then the earth will be destroyed by global cooling forever. I have already said that, I am just telling you how earth will be turned into an example for the rest of the universe to see and learn,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnSPqHK5POY