New Energy Storage Systems Eat Carbon Dioxide For Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner
Carbon dioxide is getting an energy storage makeover as researchers explore battery systems that use industrial emissions for good, not evil.
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Electricity From Carbon Dioxide
When I first read about the work of the University of Queensland research team claiming to create electricity from CO2, my initial thought was that this was a cross between a fossil fuel funded beatup and a fairytale. But, digging deeper, and talking with Dr Zhuyuan Wang of UQ’s ARC … [continued]
Greenlyte Means Go: Speedy €10.5M Funding For Its Direct Air Capture System
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies, a very promising up-and-comer in direct air capture carbon removal, has received €10.5 million in a pre-series A round of funding with participation of Earlybird, Carbon Removal Partners, Partech, and others. With this funding, the company has now raised €20 million in combined equity and grants since … [continued]
Letters To The Editor: Opinions From Poo-Poo’ers
We get a solid amount of…interesting…. email from clean tech doubters and outright haters. We recently launched a “Letters to the editor” section, and well, I decided to run a smattering of the commentary that CleanTechnica receives (slash have to deal with) on the daily, just for your entertainment. Enjoy. … [continued]
ChatGPT and DALL-E generated panoramic image showcasing the contrast between an ocean carbon capture facility and a green, clean city on a pair of weigh scales
Electrolyzing Carbon Dioxide Out Of Sea Water Has Multiple Red Flags
In recent months I’ve returned to the overlapping subjects of geoengineering and carbon capture, both of which I’d mostly satisfied myself about years ago. Both, however, are re-ascending the hype scale and at least for aspects of geoengineering, my curiosity was unsatisfied.
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic satirical image depicting a car with an oversized CO2 balloon attached, humorously illustrating the impracticality of capturing CO2 directly from moving vehicles.
CCS Redux: Capturing CO2 From Exhaust Pipes Is A Bad Idea That Won’t Die
Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the hype cycle. Nothing has really changed. The problems still exist. The alternatives are still better. The potential for use is still minuscule. And so, the CCS Redux series, republishing old … [continued]
Carbonfuture Partners With Ceezer To Streamline Access For Large Corporates Into Carbon Removal
Carbonfuture has announced a partnership to provide its Carbon Removal Infrastructure to CEEZER, a digital platform for large-scale carbon credit procurement and management. The collaboration is set to integrate Carbonfuture’s inventory of vetted durable carbon removal credits onto CEEZER’s platform, opening up access for its corporate clients. Carbonfuture has the … [continued]
How Do We Know CO2 Is Causing Global Warming?
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added “At a glance” section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a “bump” for our … [continued]
Broken Record: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Jump Again
Carbon dioxide levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked at 424 parts per million in May, continuing a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography offsite link at the University of California San Diego announced … [continued]
NOAA: How Greenhouse Gas Pollution Amplified Global Warming in 2022
“The AGGI is derived from highly accurate measurements of greenhouse gases in air samples collected around the world,” said Vanda Grubišić, Ph.D, director of NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML). “It continues to rise despite international efforts to curb emission of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels that seem to be falling short of their targets.”
