There are a number of startup companies that aim to build industrial-scale carbon dioxide scrubbers to remove millions of tons of the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere to help offset climate change. However, they’re still looking for financial backing to get their dreams off the ground.
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The future of motoring is about to change radically. In the future, there should be no need for noisy, fuel-guzzling vehicles that belch damaging fumes into our precious atmosphere, pounding our roads and harming our environment, as advances in science have provided stunning new alternatives, some of which do not even require a driver.
One such innovation has emerged from motor giant, Toyota, who have been prototyping a new "hover-car" developed through their sophisticated Research and Development division.
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Instead of burying it or hoping our oceans will absorb it, why don’t we just grab all that carbon dioxide out of the air?
A group of researchers think that a CO2 removal unit the size of an ocean shipping container could extract a thousand tons of the gas per year with operating costs of approximately $100 per ton. Will we soon see one of these at every street corner, the way trash cans are now?
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Burying carbon dioxide in the ground or even in the ocean has been proposed as one of the solutions to the greenhouse gas problem BUT there’s evidence that it may lead to earthquakes.
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