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Are Lakes Emitting More Carbon Dioxide in a Warming World?

March 16, 2021 sarah Jonas Carbon Capture, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Freshwater, global warming, Lakes

As the planet heats up, are lakes releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? With a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant, researcher Kevin Rose will examine large-scale patterns in concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and dissolved oxygen to answer the question.

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Cheaper Carbon Capture Is on the Way

March 11, 2021 sarah Jonas Carbon Capture, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Chemistry, CO2, CO2 capture, Department Of Energy

PNNL’s newest solvent captures carbon dioxide from power plants for as little as $47.10 per metric ton, marking a significant milestone in the journey to lower the cost of carbon capture.

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DOE Invests $24 Million to Advance Transformational Air Pollution Capture

March 5, 2021 sarah Jonas Carbon Capture, Climate Change, funding announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $24 million for research into technology that captures carbon emissions directly from the air, replicating the way plants and trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Media availability for energy experts to discuss carbon capture, storage and regulations for California

March 1, 2021 sarah Jonas California, Carbon Capture, Carbon Neutrality, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Storage

George Peridas, director of carbon management partnerships, and staff scientist Briana Schmidt from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will be available to discuss results from a new report titled “Permitting Carbon Capture and Storage in California” that examined the regulatory framework for authorizing carbon capture and storage in California and offers options for government and project developers to enable robust, transparent and efficient project permitting in line with the state’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier.

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Lab report outlines updates to state regulations for carbon capture and storage

March 1, 2021 sarah Jonas California, Carbon Capture, Carbon Neutrality, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Storage, state regulations

To reach economy-wide carbon-neutrality by 2045 or earlier, California will likely have to capture, transport and geologically store tens of millions of tons per year of carbon dioxide (CO2) from large sources and from the atmosphere.

California has an extensive regulatory framework that is rigorous, robust and will safeguard the environment, public health and safety during these activities. However, this framework cannot handle the timely permitting and deployment of sufficient projects to protect the rapidly worsening climate and support achieving the state’s climate goals, according to a report by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

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Cornell CALS dean advises on carbon removal strategies

December 22, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Carbon Capture, Climate Change, soil, Sustainability, Technology

Benjamin Z. Houlton, the dean of Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, joined a panel helping to identify key pathways for terrestrial carbon dioxide removal that merit further investment.

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What are the promises and perils of geoengineering?

November 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Carbon Capture, Carbon Capture and Storage, carbon removal, Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, Environmentalism, Ethics, Geoengineering, Geology, Greenhouse Gases, Politics, Social Science

In a new book, “Has It Come to This? The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink,” Holly Jean Buck and colleagues weigh in on social, ethical and political dimensions of deliberate, large-scale interventions in the planet’s climate.

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Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions

November 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Built Environment, Carbon Capture, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide (CO2), City Planning, Construction, Environment and Energy Economics, Europe, Forestry, Green Building, Green Building Technology, Housing, wood

Shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If 80% of new residential buildings in Europe were made of wood inside and out, they would store the equivalent of about half of the cement industry’s annual emissions.

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ADVANCING CARBON DIOXIDE CATALYSIS

September 30, 2020 sarah Jonas Carbon Capture, energy and climate change

Feng Jiao is a leader in the field of carbon capture and utilization, working on ways to subtract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by capturing the greenhouse gas and transforming it into another substance altogether. And now he’s received two major Department of Energy grants, totaling $3.5 million, to advance those efforts.

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Novel 3D-printed device demonstrates enhanced capture of carbon dioxide emissions

August 19, 2020 sarah Jonas additive manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Carbon Capture, Greenhouse Emissions

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have designed and additively manufactured a first-of-its-kind aluminum device that enhances the capture of carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel plants and other industrial processes.

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Carbon-loving materials designed to reduce industrial emissions

July 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Carbon Capture

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing gas membrane materials to expand practical technology options for reducing industrial carbon emissions.

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Shedding light on how much carbon tropical forests can absorb

March 19, 2020 sarah Jonas Biodiversity, Carbon Capture, Carbon Sequestration, CO2, Tropical Forests

New research sheds light on how much tropical forests’ ability to take up and store carbon differ between forests with high versus low species richness, aiming to enhance our ability to predict tropical ecosystems’ strength as global carbon sinks.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore Lab Foundation, ClimateWorks to unveil report on California’s road to carbon neutrality

January 23, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Biomass, Carbon Capture, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Neutrality, Climate Change

LLNL will host a briefing to unveil the new report “Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California,” which identifies a robust suite of technologies to help California clear the last hurdle and become carbon neutral by 2045.

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New Investments and Research Indicate Multi-Trillion Dollar Market for Climate Restoration Through Carbon-Capture

January 21, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments ASU, Carbon Capture, Carbon capture & sequestration, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate, Climate Action, climate action plan, climate adaptation, Climate Crisis, CO2, Co2 Emissions, CO2 removal, CO2 removal goals, Davos, Green Energy, Thunderbird, thunderbird school of global management, WEF, world economic forum

Climate restoration is the global movement to remove the trillion tons of excess CO2 from the atmosphere to restore our air to preindustrial levels of carbon dioxide and to preserve the Arctic ice. Given the climate emergency, climate restoration is a critical third pillar of climate action, complementing ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts. New technologies and natural solutions for reducing CO2 levels in the next 30 years already exist and the costs for global-scale implementation are projected to be less than 1-3% of the global annual GDP.

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