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From Smokestacks to Your Tank

By innovation2

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IF the government regulates carbon dioxide emissions, power plants and other factories will probably start removing CO2 from their smokestacks and will have to pay to get rid of it.
The conventional wisdom is that it will be sequestered underground.
But one audacious concept is to recycle the carbon by turning it [...]

Simple, Low-cost Carbon Filter Removes 90 Percent Of Carbon Dioxide From Smokestack Gases

By innovation2

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Researchers in Wyoming report development of a low-cost carbon filter that can remove 90 percent of carbon dioxide gas from the smokestacks of electric power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels.

Maciej Radosz and colleagues at Wyoming’s Soft Materials Laboratory cite the pressing need for simple, inexpensive new technologies to remove [...]