Continuous large-scale emissions of carbon dioxide lead to global warming, and the greenhouse effect has always been a difficult problem for the earths ecology to be solved. Melting glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic and rising sea levels not only seriously threaten the living environment of local organisms, but also have a serious impact on the future of mankind. How to effectively control carbon dioxide emissions has become a primary issue for countries around the world to solve.
A company called Climeworks has developed the worlds first carbon dioxide collector. This device can chemically treat the collected air and precipitate carbon dioxide onto the surface of the adsorbent. When the carbon dioxide absorbed by the adsorbent reaches saturation, it is heated to above 100 degrees to extract carbon dioxide with high purity.
The extracted carbon dioxide can be supplied to greenhouse planting fields as nutrients to speed up the growth of crops, and can also be sold to beverages Manufacturers make soda.
Climeworks has built a carbon dioxide adsorption plant in Paris. The three containers in the picture are each equipped with six carbon dioxide collectors, which can collect 900 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
According to the two founders According to the introduction, they plan to collect 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year in the next few decades. Only by reaching this amount can we have a chance to limit the increase in global temperature to less than 2%. This project has attracted many celebrity attention and successfully attracted tens of millions of dollars in sponsorship from the European Space Agency and Bill Gates.
