{"id":847,"date":"2018-12-13T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T08:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=847"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:17","slug":"carbon-capture-a-necessary-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2018\/12\/13\/carbon-capture-a-necessary-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon capture: a necessary evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I went to an event on demystifying carbon capture technologies. They are here, but are they here to stay?<\/p>\n

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Sallie Greenberg, a geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey\u00a0talking about experiments they have conducted in Illinois to inject CO2 into saline aquifers. Her team has shown that it is a proven method that could be scaled up to provide storage of CO2 out of the atmosphere. There are obvious challenges with sighting and injecting but she believes this can contribute to fighting climate change.<\/p>\n

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The co-founder of the world’s first commercially available carbon capture technology gave a presentation about how his team’s product has a net 90% efficiency in pulling carbon directly out of the air. It pulls out carbon and liquifies it. Water is also a byproduct of the process. It has been rolled out across several European countries.<\/p>\n

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This is a scheme of how the first negative carbon plant in Iceland works. Its hooked up to a geothermal plant to provide the heat necessary to remove carbon. The chemistry to me is not clear but this seems promising.<\/p>\n

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The founder did recognize that this is not the solution to climate change. In fact, he stated that trees and nature-based\u00a0solutions a better option. However, he cited that with the decline of the use of petroleum products, the world will still need a carbon source for industrial products.<\/p>\n

What do you guys think about carbon capture? Will it be necessary if we overshoot the 1.5 mark?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I went to an event on demystifying carbon capture technologies. They are here, but are they here to stay? Sallie Greenberg, a geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey\u00a0talking about experiments they have conducted in Illinois to inject CO2 into saline aquifers. Her team has shown that it is a proven method that could … Continue reading Carbon capture: a necessary evil?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}