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Air capture 101
Potentially a long-term option for putting waste heat to use |
Joseph Romm |
01 Apr 2008 |
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| RealClimate has a good introductory post on air capture, which they explain as: The idea would be to let people emit the carbon dioxide at the source but then capture it directly from the atmosphere at a separate facility. This is going to be a relatively expensive and complicated strategy for decades -- and, of course, you need a place to put the carbon dioxide. That said, a lot of work is going on to see if one can do air capture driven by heat. Why does that matte ... |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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