A new way of sucking carbon from the air is up to three times more effective than current technology.
plant in IcelandThe company has recently started selling a certified carbon removal service to large corporate clients including Microsoft, Spotify and Stripe.CO2, although a powerful warming agent, is relatively diluted in the atmosphere at around 400 parts per million in air.
The research team have borrowed an approach used for applications in water, and "tweaked" existing materials to remove CO2 from the air. "This simple ability to capture CO2 at a high quantity, in a small volume of material, is a unique aspect of our work.""I am happy to see this paper in the published literature, it is very exciting, and it stands a good chance of transforming the CO2 capture efforts," said Prof Catherine Peters from Princeton University, an expert in geological engineering, who wasn't involved in the research project.
"We have to take it to places like Bangladesh, Barbados or the Maldives, they also have a role to play, they cannot be just bystanders who keep suffering."
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