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Papers
- -A Guide to Certifying Carbon Removal (CarbonGap.org)
"Carbon Gap welcomes the European Commission’s forthcoming proposal to launch a Carbon Removal Certification Mechanism (CRC-M) for Europe, which could help catalyse global scaling of high-quality carbon removals. This White Paper sets out a vision for how such a certification framework should be formed."
- Carbon Capture and Storage (Wikipedia.org)
"Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an approach to mitigating the contribution of fossil fuel emissions to global warming, based on capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources such as fossil fuel power plants. It can also be used to describe the scrubbing of CO2 from ambient air as a geoengineering technique. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored away from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide capture and storage can also be used to describe biological techniques such as biochar burial, which use trees, plankton, etc. to capture CO2 from the air. However, it is more conventional to use the term 'carbon capture and storage' to describe non-biological processes." 03-09
- Carbon Capture and Storage Topics (TheGuardian.com)
"Citizen scientists are being sought for a project which will see tens of thousands of teabags buried in wetlands to monitor carbon sequestration." 02-17
- Carbon Capture in Soils Measurement (NoOrganics.com)
"An acre furrow slice is the volume or soil in an acre of topsoil 6-7 inches deep. The estimated average weight of soil in an acre furrow slice is 2,000,000 lbs (1,000 tons)."
- Carbon Measuring Tea Bags (TheGuardian.com)
"Fast decay of the tea inside the bag meant more carbon was being released into the atmosphere, while slower decay meant the soil was holding the carbon." 02-17
- Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (The New York Times)
"In an open-air warehouse in California’s Central Valley, 40-foot-tall racks hold hundreds of trays filled with a white powder that turns crusty as it absorbs carbon dioxide from the sky.
The start-up that built the facility, Heirloom Carbon Technologies, calls it the first commercial plant in the United States to use direct air capture, which involves vacuuming greenhouse gases from the atmosphere."
- Editorial: Carbon Capture and Storage Not the Solution (TheHill.com)
"Recently at COP24, the United Nations conference on climate change in Katowice, Poland, during an interview with Amy Harder of Axios, former vice president Al Gore unloaded on carbon capture and sequestration — the process that extracts carbon dioxide from exhaust streams, concentrates it, and injects it underground. Gore said CCS is 'nonsense' and 'an extremely improbable solution.' " 12-18
- Negative Carbon Emissions (LLNL.gov)
"This report is an assessment of negative emissions pathways—ones that physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere—that can help California achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, or sooner. It integrates original research findings with current published research on three main pillars of negative emissions: natural and working lands, carbon capture from biomass conversion to fuels, and direct air capture."
"The focus and scope of this report is unique: it only addresses practices and technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the air. It also encompasses the entire breadth of strategies, from land management to the latest technological options, and it evaluates the cost of every step of the solution, from waste biomass collection to carbon dioxide transport and geologic storage. The methods are intended to be transparent; details of the calculations and underlying data are included in the report body and appendices."
"This study intentionally avoids any discussion of policies and does not include current incentives; it provides a range of options, tradeoffs and costs that can be used to inform future policies. The key finding of this report is that carbon neutrality is achievable."
- Rethinking Humanity (RethinkX)
Invites a view that humanity is on a tipping point between collapse of civilization and a new way of working with information, transportation, food, materials, and energy.
- Rock Dust for Carbon Capture (Nature.com)
"The process, called enhanced weathering, could remove 2 billion tons of CO2 from the air while fertilizing soil."
- Rock Dust for Carbon Capture (RethinkX)
Using a method of chemical weathering, called enhanced weathering, could remove billions of tons of CO2 from the air while fertilizing soil and reducing the acidity of the ocean. The solution may cost $100 per ton.
- Rock Dust for Carbon Capture (SmithsonianMag.com)
"The process, called enhanced weathering, could remove 2 billion tons of CO2 from the air while fertilizing soil."
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