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Ceramic Spheres to Capture, Store Carbon Di-oxide Emissions
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Written on: 16 November 2010 [06:10]
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altenergygeek
 registered since: 13.11.2010
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I recently came across an interesting article that suggested the use of ceramic spheres to capture and store the CO2 emissions. "Scientists in Brazil say they have developed a technique for absorbing industry-produced carbon dioxide. The half-centimeter ceramic spheres ...absorb and neutralize the CO2 before it is released. When the CO2 interacts with the sphere material, a high-temperature reaction takes place, said researcher Jadson Belchior. “The absorption isn’t instantaneous. It occurs as a function of time and temperature. They are the two major variables we can control: a more rapid emission process at higher temperatures, or slower emission at lower temperatures,” he said. The researchers claim the balls can absorb 40% of the CO2 that comes in contact with it, and say they hope to boost that number to 60%." 60% of abosrption is indeed a good number. Well, these are exciting news items, the only problem is, I keep hearing about many of these, and only a very few of them ever appear to reach the market. And the million $ question is, which of them?! What do you think about ideas like these? Will they ever achieve commercial success or are they destined to live within laboratory walls? |
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