Researchers Develop A Carbon-Capture Device
By Nick April 4, 2008
Nowadays we all know that we have a problem with CO2 emission but many of us don’t understand the solemnity of this issue. I am pleased to announce that there is somebody that has developed a machine that takes back the CO2 emission lurking in the atmosphere.
Global Research Technologies from Tucson, Arizona, is the proud developer of the Atmospheric Carbon Capture Systems Air-Capture System or ACCESS. The scientists from GRT were helped by Klaus Lackner, geophysicist at the Columbia University, who provided the ACCESS with sheets that capture the CO2 molecules from the atmosphere. Mr. Lackner said that it’s easy to catch CO2 but it’s very hard to keep it under arrest.
In order to capture the molecules directly from air, the sheets contain a chemical solution that traps the CO2 after processes of electrodialysis. For the moment the ACCESS traps about 100 kilograms of CO2 daily, but Mr. Lackner is sure that the next generation of the machine will capture approximately 1 ton per day. If this would be possible then the ACCESS will match the amount that a tree absorbs in a year, in only one day.
If it were to radically reduce the global emissions there would be needed millions of these machines so the researchers made the utmost that these devices have the possibility to be placed anywhere and in clusters. Still, there is a long way because the ACCESS will not enter mass production at least for the next five years. We can only hope that they will hurry up because the U.S. Department of Energy estimated about 7000 millions tons of CO2 emissions in 2006.
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