How Does Carbon Capture Work?

Elon Musk is shelling out a hundred millions dollars to anyone who can come up with a way of removing CO2 from our atmosphere. Time to win that sweet, sweet carbon capture money.

Here’s that very cool carbon dioxide removal and storage proposal we mentioned in the video: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c08561
#carboncapture #co2 #climatesolutions

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Leila Duman, PhD
Peter Psarras, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD

Sources:
Carbonplan.org
https://carbonplan.org/

Carbon Dioxide removal primer
https://cdrprimer.org/

Weight of Earth’s atmosphere
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-much-does-earths-atmosphere-weigh#:~:text=The%20total%20mass%20of%20Earth's,one%20millionth%20of%20Earth's%20mass.

CO2 emitted each year
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-carbon-dioxide-does-united-states-and-world-emit-each-year-energy-sources?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

Carbon capture and storage
https://www.nap.edu/read/10922/chapter/9#85

CC prizes
https://massivesci.com/articles/elon-musk-prize-earthshot-bezos/

Elon Musk’s X prize
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

Compressing CO2
https://www.ascoco2.com/us/co2-production-and-co2-recovery-plants/general-information-about-co2

Better carbon capture through chemistry
https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2015/12/Better-Carbon-Capture-Through-Chemistry.htmlv

Carbon Capture Technologies Are Improving Nicely
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-capture-technologies-are-improving-nicely/

Carbon capture and storage
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-solutions/carbon-capture-storage

Carbon capture and storage 101
https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/carbon-capture-and-storage-101/

Carbon capture
https://www.c2es.org/content/carbon-capture/

Carbon capture technology has been around for decades — here’s why it hasn’t taken off
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/31/carbon-capture-technology.html

Underground storage of carbon captured directly from air—green and economical
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-underground-storage-carbon-captured-airgreen.html

What is carbon sequestration?
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-carbon-sequestration?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

Carbon capture coalition
https://carboncapturecoalition.org/

Carbonate chemistry
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/469-carbonate-chemistry

To Combat Climate Change, Researchers Want to Pull Carbon Dioxide From the Ocean and Turn It Into Rock
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/combat-climate-change-researchers-want-to-pull-carbon-dioxide-from-ocean-and-turn-it-into-rock-180977903/

IPCC carbon stats https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/

Carbon absorbed by trees
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-2-march-april/ask-mr-green/how-much-carbon-do-trees-really-store

Daily CO2
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

Saline Water-Based Mineralization Pathway for Gigatonne-Scale CO2 Management
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c08561

Running Tide Technologies
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/01/970670565/run-the-oil-industry-in-reverse-fighting-climate-change-by-farming-kelp

Saline Aquifers
http://igutek.scripts.mit.edu/terrascope/?page=Saline

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