What is the future of carbon capture technology? | Climate Now Podcast Ep. 75

Since its founding in 1952, the mission of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been to meet urgent national security needs through scientific and technological innovation. Expanding from its focus on nuclear weapons science at the height of the Cold War, LLNL has become a national research leader in counterterrorism, intelligence, defense, and energy, with its emphasis in the latter being to advance national energy security while also reducing its impact. And critical to reducing the environmental impact of the national energy sector is determining how to remove historical greenhouse gas emissions (what has already been released) from the atmosphere in parallel with ongoing global decarbonization efforts.
Climate Now’s James Lawler was invited to tour LLNL’s Carbon Capture Lab, home to a team of scientists working to reduce the cost and bottlenecks of implementing large-scale carbon capture facilities, to learn how this research is developed, where the state-of-the-art is in carbon capture technology, and where we could go next (Direct Air Capture skyscrapers?).
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[@Cardioid2035]

How can I/ others get involved here? We needed Direct Air Capture technology implemented at a global scale like yesterday. Renewables and green energy sources are obviously the goal, but as long as the petro-dollar global economic structure is in place Direct Air Capture is truly the only viable option. Governments can (and absolutely should) create a forced market for captured carbon products which would incentivize investors and would inadvertently fund the endeavour all together.

[@ClimateNow]

In the US, there is a federal credit for capturing a storing carbon dioxide - 45Q - to incentivize more capture and storage. How can folks get involved in carbon dioxide removal and storage? Join one of these carbon dioxide removal companies (there are hundreds if not thousands, including, Heirloom, Carbfix, Mote Hydrogen, Climeworks...), become a scientific researcher at an academic institution or government lab, support carbon dioxide removal in policy at the local, state, or national level, work with, or support nonprofits like Carbon 180 who do carbon dioxide removal policy work.

[@Cardioid2035]

@@ClimateNow I screenshotted that thank you. I’ll try to do my part… Since you have a platform and may read this I’d like to articulate this idea further to you; what I mean by ‘forced market’ would be something along the lines of a slowly increasing quota in all relevant industries to obligate production of captured carbon goods. If implemented properly, every single brick manufacturer on earth could have a quota to produce carbon captured bricks for new infrastructure. This quota model could also be applied to new vehicles being built by only using recycled carbon fibre composites etc.. By implementing a strict quota policy there would be a huge economic incentive to roll out DAC and ultimately lower the cost of manufacturing. The big problem with DAC is there’s no return on investment currently. As of right now funding the endeavour is like donating to a charity and it won’t be enough. This is an idea I’ve been trying to articulate for a while now, but essentially the terms ‘economic viability’ and ‘environmental sustainability’ must coalesce into one single action otherwise nothing will change. Take this idea and run with it as well it if you think it’s worth a try!

[@toddt1754]

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