With the increasing fears of the impact of global warming across the world, scientists are rolling up their gloves to find better solutions to the gruesome after-effects. Concerned on similar grounds, scientists at Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT) — a technology research and development company – have come up with a bold new technology, capable of capturing carbon from the air.
The technology has revealed that, it may not be feasible to cap the release of carbon gases into the air, but, the greenhouse gases can be captured successfully from the atmosphere. This new ‘air extraction’ prototype is perhaps the first step towards a commercially viable air capture device.
Meeting a wide range of performance standards in the GRT research facility, the new air extraction device use sorbents for capturing carbon dioxide molecules from free-flowing air. These molecules are then released as a pure stream of carbon dioxide for sequestration.
Thanks to GRT and Klaus S. Lackner – a professor at the Earth Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Columbia University – for developing the carbon capture technology.
Lackner said,
This is an exciting step toward making carbon capture and sequestration a viable technology. I have long believed science and industry have the technological capability to design systems that will capture greenhouse gases and allow us to transition to energies of the future over the long term.
The new technology, once made commercial successfully, would surely help cap the dramatically increasing and completely unprecedented carbon dioxide level in the earth’s atmosphere.
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