Ambient air capture, a form of carbon dioxide sequestration (CDR), involves building large machines that can remove carbon dioxide directly from the ambient air so that the captured CO2 can be stored elsewhere.
The three steps of the air capture process are:
- Contacting the air
- Absorption or adsorption on a sorbent
- Recovery of the sorbent
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Question: What is geoengineering?
Albedo Enhancement
Space Reflectors
Stratospheric Aerosols
Afforestation
Ambient Air Capture
Biochar
Bioenergy Capture and Sequestration
Ocean Fertilization
Enhanced Weathering
Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
sources
- Carbon Engineering Ltd. (n.d.). What is air capture?
- Lackner, K. S., Brennan, S., Matter, J. M., Park, A.-H. A., Wright, A., & Zwaan, B. v. (2012, June 28). The urgency of the development of CO2 capture from ambient air.
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