Bill Gates Sponsored was Giant Fans Will Soon Suck CO2 from Air and Recycled it as Fuel. Climate change has always been an awful problem that is occurring in today’s era. People have reached from Stone Age to the age of technology, but the world is degrading day by day because of we human’s activities only.
And the main problem is the gas that is evolving. That gas is Carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide is the very harmful gas which degrades the age of the earth. We all know that the main reason for these climate change is chlorofluorocarbon and we also know that the leading producer of this carbon gas comes from our home only and that is refrigerators.
The rate of climate change that has been occurring today and its effects on our planets in the future, incite some of the most reliable opinions and anxiety among the people of the world. It has an adverse impact, especially on our planet. While seeing the acknowledgment for this, we can see that no one is sharing their responsibility towards this. No wonder that Elon Musk calls this as Humanity’s dumbest experiment.
Emission of the carbon is the most significant contributor for increases in global temperature worldwide, and it will continue to do this until an immediate solution is panned out. Likely nothing is done for this. Planting of the trees everywhere in the bare lands can help a little to control this, but for this method, it will require a vast amount of fertile ground for absorbing even a small volume of carbon dioxide.
And for absorbing the maximum amount of carbon dioxide, it might require a fertile land, probably equal to one nation, which is not exactly possible. But what if we could build something that does the same as forest-suck CO2 out of the atmosphere other than planting the trees?
Carbon Engineering, a company which is sponsored by Bill Gates, is working on technologies to take CO2 directly out of the atmosphere without any other methods. It sounds incredible but this is not an easy thing to do as CO2 represents just one molecule out of 2500 particles in the air.
Carbon Engineering has built the prototype contractor that converts 100KG of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere every day into harmless carbonates. Now, you can wonder the extent of their full-scale system.
At its maximum capacity, the full-scale system by the Carbon Engineering team has expected to capture the emissions from 300,000 cars every year. And they are doing their best for this control. Air capture doesn’t require any exotic technology and can be scaled in size and installed anywhere on the Earth as we know that CO2 is present everywhere all over the earth, depending on the economic and industrial needs of the particular place.
Well, it doesn’t end here. The pure CO2 can be combined with H2 and form hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline and jet fuel, thus continuing the above process. And this also can be a solution during the shortage of fuels.
Air capture seems quite a promising technology today, a solution that could provide sustainable development at a very lower cost and help earth from degrading. The conventional cars are not going out anytime soon and nor the industries going to slow their pace, so air capture could be a game changer without affecting the development agenda of every country.