Scientists and policymakers are pursuing carbon capture techniques like CCUS, direct air capture, and reforestation to mitigate the harmful effects of CO2 emissions, driven by the Paris Climate Agreement's goal to limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. Carbo
Accelerated limestone weathering
builds on a natural form of carbon sequestration in which compounds in calcium carbonate , seawater, and CObreak down and turn into dissolved bicarbonate ions. The process usually takes tens of thousands of years, butresearcher Jess Adkins are creating a prototype treatment tank for cargo ships that could one day transform flue gas into slightly saltier water that can be returned to the ocean.
until it changes into a liquid. This method builds on a technique oil companies use to revive production in older wells. The carbon would then travel through a pipeline deep into Earth, where it would be stored under geological formations to seep into the pores of rocks or to mineralize into new rock.
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