{"id":169443,"date":"2023-08-10T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/electrochemical-process-could-boost-efficiency-of-capturing-carbon-directly-from-air"},"modified":"2023-08-10T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T23:23:19","slug":"electrochemical-process-could-boost-efficiency-of-capturing-carbon-directly-from-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/electrochemical-process-could-boost-efficiency-of-capturing-carbon-directly-from-air","title":{"rendered":"Electrochemical process could boost efficiency of capturing carbon directly from air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrochemical-process-could-boost-efficiency-of-capturing-carbon-directly-from-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering has invented a device that leverages electrochemistry to increase the efficiency of direct air carbon capture. Their alternative strategy aims to accelerate the widespread adoption of this emerging technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology required to pull carbon directly out of the air has been developing for decades, but the field is now accelerating with governments and industry investing in the infrastructure required to actually do this at scale,\u201d says David Sinton, a professor in the faculty\u2019s department of mechanical and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/industrial+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">industrial engineering<\/a> and senior author on a paper published in <i>Joule<\/i> that outlines the new technique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne key barrier is that current processes require a lot of energy, and indeed emit a fair amount of carbon themselves,\u201d says Sinton, who holds a Canada Research Chair in microfluidics and energy and is academic director of the Climate Positive Energy Initiative, one of U of T\u2019s Institutional Strategic Initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering has invented a device that leverages electrochemistry to increase the efficiency of direct air carbon capture. Their alternative strategy aims to accelerate the widespread adoption of this emerging technology. \u201cThe technology required to pull carbon directly out of the air has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}