…From little acorns grow
Despite over ten years of trying, and numerous political initiatives at the national and EU level, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has yet to take…
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The Allam Cycle fires up
Last April the town of Laporte, Texas, was the setting for what could prove to be a turning point in the losing battle against carbon…
Meet Europe’s two ‘most exciting’ CO2 capture and storage projects
A plan to pipe CO2 emissions from industries around the Port of Rotterdam and a hydrogen transport hub in the north of England have been…
Scientists inject new sense of urgency into CCS
Europe – and the warming planet – has lost precious time in developing carbon capture and storage (CCS), a fledgling technology seen as crucial to…
The Kemper County CCS project – what went wrong and what next?
A long-running saga finally came to an end this July, as the Kemper County carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility was ordered to cease operations…
Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt
James Dyke, University of Southampton By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of…
Looking for alternatives: CO2 mineralization
The reduction of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere is one of the great goals of our century. The constraints on emissions set by the…
Talking CO2: how carbon capture and storage has refined its pitch
In most countries today, a minority of people have ever heard of carbon capture and storage, and still fewer have much knowledge of how this…
Worthless mining waste could suck CO₂ out of the atmosphere and reverse emissions
The Paris Agreement commits nations to limiting global warming to less than 2˚C by the end of the century. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent…
Is there a way back for CCS in the UK?
The development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) suffered a surprise blow last November when the United Kingdom’s widely admired ‘CCS Commercialisation Competition’ was quietly…
Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into fuel
As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide….
A Breakthrough Carbon-Capturing Algae Project
A research photobioreactor designed to capture significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plant flue gas for high-density algae cultivation is showing promise. The…
Plastic Bags Might Kickstart the Carbon Capture Industry
You just can’t drink enough soda to create a market for bottling and storing all the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But as researchers…