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MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air.
Most methods of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of gas require higher concentrations, such as those found in the flue emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants. A few variations have been developed that can work with the low concentrations found in air, but the new method is significantly less energy-intensive and expensive, the researchers say.
The technique, based on passing air through a stack of charged electrochemical plates, is described in a new paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, by MIT postdoc Sahag Voskian, who developed the work during his PhD, and T. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Sahag Voskian, T. Alan Hatton. Faradaic electro-swing reactive adsorption for CO2 capture. Energy & Environmental Science, 2019; DOI: 10.1039/C9EE02412C
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:19AM (3 children)
Electro-swing?! You can't be serious...
This is Electro-swing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpa45pE9DxQ [youtube.com]
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @11:52AM (1 child)
Eh, another one thinking his ignorance is as good as MIT science.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:52PM
Those scientific articles posted here with none to zero comments have no purpose other than burying critical discussions in other serious posts.
They serve the purpose of "Ignorance is a bliss".
It's the principial mechanic of the SN crowd control.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:18PM
see subject
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @11:55AM
if you develop a really good one it will make an excellent doomsday weapon.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:30PM (8 children)
It is currently 20+ degrees below the average monthly *low* where I live and silent news refuses to cover it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:33PM (2 children)
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=37437¬e=&title=Record-breaking+cold+expected+Tuesday%3B+below+average+temps+to+linger+until+next+week [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:46PM (1 child)
stop bringing up facts!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:55PM
I don't see any facts or evidence there. Those are just words and quotes and links.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @02:43PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)
Setting world records for cold temperature seems newsworthy to me.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:13PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:22PM (1 child)
Turn on the Weather Channel you boomer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:43PM
I've been seeing this "ok boomer" meme elsewhere. Why did you start mimicking it? Where did you first see it?
Btw, I am in no way a boomer. It reminds me of the fortune cookie that told my friend's sister "you are a very lucky man". It is funny because whoever is saying that is an idiot who doesn't understand basic odds. Then again, maybe you are a bot or sweatshop slave.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:17PM
So need a another way to reduce carbon
https://www.axios.com/iea-report-global-energy-demand-climate-change-goals-db9c5d4b-78b1-4fc6-8744-49af72de744d.html [axios.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:41PM
Does all the hyped "concern about nature" mean nothing when you cannot patent a "solution" and price it through the roof, cloud layer, and upper stratosphere?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @08:39PM (5 children)
But seriously, there's already a great means to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere: trees.
Furthermore, there's no reason we need to reduce CO2. It's at one of the lowest levels it has ever been on a geological time scale.
Increased CO2 will improve plant growth. People treat it with anathema like it's some terrible poison. More CO2 is just fine for the planet.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:29PM (1 child)
Your first line is the only one worth anything. The last two need citations, big time, from real scientific studies.
The planet doesn't give a damn about the temperature, or CO2. It will endure, barring some astronomical disaster. What a hotter planet will do, however is give us short-sighted humans big problems.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday November 13 2019, @11:43PM
Oh, that's a *huge* relief. My eyesight is fine. No wonder everyone's talking about it as a big hoax!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:57PM (2 children)
Trees are not a good long-term solution to this long-term problem. Unless the trees are buried, they will rot and release all that "captured" CO2 back into the atmosphere. The beds of coal we mine today were laid down over 300 million years ago, before bacteria evolved to break down the lignin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @11:25PM
The econuts incessantly scream that plastics "do not degrade for hundreds of years", so why not use one putative problem as a solution to another?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by deimtee on Thursday November 14 2019, @12:10AM
Re-forestation is a one-time sink of carbon. But it can be a large one-time sink. I personally favour re-foresting the Middle East. "Bring back the Cedars of Lebanon". :)
Also, dig a channel to the Great Rift Valley and let it fill with sea water. It will cool and humidify a large area, lower sea levels, and improve much of NE Africa.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday November 14 2019, @12:49AM
Duplicants are demanding an alternative to the standard CO2 scrubber as on some asteroids they are depleting available fresh water supplies and recycling units may not be enough to maintain adequate clean water....
https://youtu.be/_goXCL5syeQ?t=74 [youtu.be]
Klei please bring the Faradaic electro-swing reactive adsorption to us! As it's electro-swing maybe we can hook it up to the Jukebot?
https://youtu.be/1JbLTCimFlU?t=1389 [youtu.be]
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