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Environmental News
DISCOVERING A NEW
PRACTICAL WAY
TO GET RID OF THE ATMOSPHERE
FROM CARBON DIOXIDE
A team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced discovering a new way to get rid of the atmosphere from
harmful carbon dioxide, providing the world with a potential weapon to combat climate change.
Although many scientists have emphasized the need to use carbon capture technologies to get rid of the devastating e ects of climate
change, the current methods of these technologies didn’t reach the level required to apply them in practice.
The MIT engineers team think they have solved this problem, establishing a company called Fairdox that aims to commercialize and invest
their new system. The proposed system operates by passing the air through a plate of electrically charged carbon nanotubes to absorb carbon
dioxide from the air.
Expand the project
The advantage of the new carbon capture system is that it does not need a large energy and does not release a large amount of heat that
causes environmental damage when produced on an industrial scale, according to research published in the British Journal of Energy and
Environmental Sciences.
The researchers hope to develop a factory on an experimental scale over the next few years. Dr. Sahag Fuskian, one of the system's developers
said "It is very easy to expand the system, it only su ces to produce more electrodes if we want more capacity."
E orts in our laboratories have focused on developing new technologies to address a range of environmental problems, so that technologies
do not require thermal energy sources, system pressure changes, or adding of chemicals to complete the isolation and release cycles, said
T. Alan Hatton, a chemical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Carbon isolation and release
The scientists pointed out that the new system removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as bene ting from it in the industries
that need it.
Isolated carbon is included in some carbonated beverage lling plants, and in some agricultural needs, rather than burning fossil fuels to
produce it.
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