Over the much longer term, global warming could cause countless animal extinctions and even threaten the very existence of mankind itself. Thankfully, several leading solutions are being developed that could rewind the CO2 emissions clock. While scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air might seem impossible, it is very close to becoming a reality.

1. From CO2 to
Coal: Turning
Back the Clock
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2. With climate change at the forefront of most
environmental policies and initiatives, scientists and
researchers are scrambling to figure out a way to address
the problem. Let’s face it, the earth is getting warmer at
an alarming rate. The current warming trajectory means
that parts of the world will be faced with constant
weather-borne catastrophes in the coming decades.

3. Over the much longer term, global warming
could cause countless animal extinctions
and even threaten the very existence of
mankind itself. Thankfully, several leading
solutions are being developed that could
rewind the CO2 emissions clock. While
scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air
might seem impossible, it is very close to
becoming a reality.

4. CARBON
CAPTURE
AND
STORAGE
Some of the world’s leading scientists have
developed an anti-emissions technology that is
being called carbon capture and storage. In a
nutshell, the technology is able to draw carbon
dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere and turn it
into raw usable coal. Once the coal is created it
is able to be safely stored in huge underground
storage facilities that present no contamination
risk to the greater environment. Thus far the
carbon capture and storage technology has only
been used on a small scale, however, the
processes driving the technology are thought to
be fully scalable to an industrial level.

5. How Does Carbon Capture
and Storage Work?
An international group of researchers and scientists operating
out of RMIT University in Australia have been able to create a
fully functional electrocatalyst made out of liquid metal. This
electrocatalyst is able to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and
turn it into a solid coal-based matter through room temperature
reactions. The solid carbon is then auto-transported to a large
underground silo by the filtration system’s built-in solid carbon
transport system. This technology scaled out has the potential
to rewind the earth’s carbon clock.

6. How Scalable is It?
The carbon capture and storage technology was devised from the
get-go with scalability in mind. The team of scientists that devised
the technology claim that the technology is scalable on an industrial
level. In fact, unless the technology is scaled out in mass on globally,
it would only be able to remove a marginal amount of carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere. Placing a large scale carbon capture and
storage center in every major city on earth could help reduce carbon
emissions by a double-digit percentage globally.

7. Could Carbon Capture and
Storage Cure Global Warming?
Experts that have closely studied the carbon capture and storage
technology believe that it could be a key component towards finding a cure
for global warming. While the technology alone could not offer a solitary
cure, if it is used in coordination with other initiatives it could likely help
to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The percentage
of carbon dioxide that the technology is capable of realistically reducing
could be a double-digit percentage if processing centers were widespread
and built to industrial scale. These processing centers would also need to
be strategically located in places where carbon emissions are the highest.

8. Does The Technology
Pose Any Risks?
The carbon capture and storage technology does not pose any primary
risks, as the process is clean and pollution-free. It does, however, present
a serious secondary risk. Due to the fact that carbon capture and storage
technology is able to mass-produce raw coal that would be usable as a
fossil fuel energy, there would always be a temptation to use this coal to
create dirty and non-green energy. Laws and regulations, however, could
be put into place that prohibit coal produced by carbon capture and
storage technology to be used to produce further greenhouse emissions.

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