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Metals Supercharge Method to Bury Billions of Tons of Harmful Carbon Dioxide Under the Sea

posted by mrpg on Monday October 04 2021, @09:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the make-it-look-like-an-accident dept.

upstart writes:

Metals Supercharge Method To Bury Billions of Tons of Harmful Carbon Dioxide Under the Sea for Centuries:

There’s a global race to reduce the amount of harmful gases in our atmosphere to slow down the pace of climate change, and one way to do that is through carbon capture and sequestration — sucking carbon out of the air and burying it. At this point, however, we’re capturing only a fraction of the carbon needed to make any kind of dent in climate change.

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with ExxonMobil, have made a new discovery that may go a long way in changing that. They have found a way to supercharge the formation of carbon dioxide-based crystal structures that could someday store billions of tons of carbon under the ocean floor for centuries, if not forever.

“I consider carbon capture as insurance for the planet,” said Vaibhav Bahadur (VB), an associate professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of a new paper on the research in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. “It’s not enough anymore to be carbon neutral, we need to be carbon negative to undo damage that has been done to the environment over the past several decades.”

Journal Reference:
Aritra Kar, Palash Vadiraj Acharya, Awan Bhati, et al. Magnesium-Promoted Rapid Nucleation of Carbon Dioxide Hydrates, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c03041)

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by deimtee on Monday October 04 2021, @11:16AM (1 child)

    by deimtee (3272) on Monday October 04 2021, @11:16AM (#1184067) Journal

    Are we really to believe they are going to sequester carbon when they are still pulling it out of the ground?

    Certainly. If you pay them to, they will happily pull carbon out of the ground. If you pay them again, they will happily put it back.
    In fact, I bet they are already working on a way to pull carbon out of the 'crystal structures' in TFA , just in case someone will pay them for that too.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04 2021, @11:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04 2021, @11:33AM (#1184071)

    Shit you are so right, did not think of that.
    They will most likely do it with tax payer's money through subsidies too!

    Oh man, it gets worse as this Merry-Go-Round keeps spinning.