Even as the world slowly begins to decarbonize industrial processes, achieving lower concentrations of atmospheric carbon requires technologies that remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — rather than just prevent the creation of it.
Even as the world slowly begins to decarbonize industrial processes, achieving lower concentrations of atmospheric carbon requires technologies that remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -- rather than just prevent the creation of it.directly from the source of a carbon-intensive process.
Shindel said the idea behind the paper came from a desire to use ambient environmental conditions to facilitate the reaction."We liked moisture-swing carbon capture because it doesn't have a defined energy cost," Shindel said."Even though there's some amount of energy required to humidify a volume of air, ideally you could get humidity 'for free,' energetically, by relying on an environment that has natural dry and wet reservoirs of air close together.
The team believes that future experiments, coupled with computational modeling, will help better explain why certain ions are more effective than others.
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