Supercritical CO₂ is genuinely useful in compact, controlled industrial systems, but those successes do not by themselves justify climate-scale carbon pipelines or a broad new thermal-power market.
Supercritical carbon dioxide is genuinely useful stuff. Above roughly 31° Celsius and 73.8 bar, CO₂ enters a state that combines gas-like flow behavior with densities that can become much closer to liquids. Engineers have found good uses for that combination. It can extract caffeine from coffee, separate valuable compounds from … [continued]
Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute are studying ways to reduce ocean acidification near Cape Cod.
The latest research examines the risks and rewards of geoengineering the ocean to make it absorb more carbon dioxide.
The US government says we can never have too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A team of actual scientists strongly disagrees.
Energy Dome’s CO2-based long duration energy storage system has won the seal of approval from Google, which aims to accelerate and scale up to support the renewable energy movement globally.
ChatGPT generated a thermal infrared visualization of CO₂ plumes escaping from underground injection points at night, symbolizing the hidden leakage risks of long-term sequestration
The notion of geological sequestration of carbon dioxide as a climate mitigation strategy has gained prominence, largely on the back of a scenarios that aren’t aggressively electrifying and extensive fossil fuel industry lobbying. However, experiences from the oil industry’s existing use of carbon dioxide in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) cast … [continued]
NOAA reports a big jump in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in 2024, so of course the government wants to eliminate NOAA.
Global climate change has had a significant impact on the way the world grows its food. Climate change introduces a suite of ominous factors, such as greenhouse gas emissions, elevated temperature, increased carbon dioxide concentrations, nitrous oxide and methane ozone depletion, and deforestation. All of these intensify environmental stresses on … [continued]
The Italian firm Energy Dome’s “CO2 Batteries” deploy carbon dioxide to cut the cost of long duration energy storage systems for wind farms and solar arrays.
Research shows improved direct air capture of CO2 using charged molecule layers. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that small molecular tweaks to surfaces can improve absorption technology for direct air capture, or DAC, of carbon dioxide. Amino acids, which react readily with CO2 and are environmentally friendly, … [continued]
