(March 12, 2015) UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap
forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently
remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily as from the
polluted emissions of a coal-fired power plant.
The material then releases the carbon dioxide at lower
temperatures than current carbon-capture materials, potentially cutting by half
or more the energy currently consumed in the process. The released CO2 can then
be injected underground, a technique called sequestering, or, in the case of a
submarine, expelled into the sea.