{"id":183058,"date":"2024-02-19T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/this-new-method-to-capture-carbon-is-driven-by-geothermal-energy"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:34:29","slug":"this-new-method-to-capture-carbon-is-driven-by-geothermal-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/this-new-method-to-capture-carbon-is-driven-by-geothermal-energy","title":{"rendered":"This new method to capture carbon is driven by geothermal energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-method-to-capture-carbon-is-driven-by-geothermal-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osu.edu\/\" title rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><strong>Ohio State University<\/strong><\/a> have developed an innovative method to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere. Powered by geothermal energy, the team\u2019s method poses a climate-friendly alternative to traditional carbon capture technologies. It highlights the synergy between Direct Air Carbon Dioxide Capture (DACC) technologies and renewable energies from beneath the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>The approach, named Direct Air CO2 Capture with CO2 Utilization and Storage (DACCUS), promises a significant decrease in atmospheric CO2 levels, a major contributor to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change primarily results from increased CO2 levels in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, largely due to human activities like burning <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/fossil-fuel-power-a-dying-trend-in-50-of-economies\" title rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><strong>fossil fuels<\/strong><\/a> for heat, electricity, and transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Ohio State University have developed an innovative method to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere. Powered by geothermal energy, the team\u2019s method poses a climate-friendly alternative to traditional carbon capture technologies. It highlights the synergy between Direct Air Carbon Dioxide Capture (DACC) technologies and renewable energies from beneath the Earth\u2019s surface. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183058","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}