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Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 13 2019, @10:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the plant-more-trees? dept.

upstart writes:

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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

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:30PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:30PM (#919817)

    It is currently 20+ degrees below the average monthly *low* where I live and silent news refuses to cover it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:33PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:33PM (#919819)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:46PM (#919824)

      stop bringing up facts!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:55PM (#919832)

        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)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 13 2019, @02:43PM (#919844) Journal
    So what makes that news we should care about? Is there some interesting angle to it?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:23PM (#919895)

      Setting world records for cold temperature seems newsworthy to me.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:22PM (#919893)

    Turn on the Weather Channel you boomer.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:43PM (#919903)

      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.