One of the things I find intellectually appealing about Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is that it's amenable to myriad different...

A few months ago the European oil giant Shell quietly decided to abandon its $100M/yr plans to invest in high quality carbon offsets....

Last week I wrote about Oxy's purchase of direct air capture (DAC) technology provider Carbon Engineering for $1.1 billion. A billion is...

This week Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) entered into an agreement to purchase its DAC partner Carbon Engineering for $1.1 billion. This is,...

This week the DOE announced 2 large awards, and 19 small ones, to further direct air capture. The two big awards, totaling $1.1B...

Synthetic methane is an emotionally appealing idea that has never made a lot of economic sense. The appeal is simple: Recapitulate...

Last week I wrote about the "social value of an offset" (SVO). SVO provides a mathematical formula for determining the value of temporary...

One of the major reasons society wants to capture carbon dioxide from the air is that CO2 is both chemically stable and economically...

There is a fascinating new preprint out from MIT and the carbon capture startup 8 Rivers, "Optimization of a combined power plant CO2...

So here is a cute little idea: Integrate direct air capture (DAC) into the HVAC system of a building, both to capture carbon and to...

Amines make excellent sorbents for carbon dioxide because they are rich in electrons, and therefore are ready to react with the...

This week a new CDR non-profit was announced, the Carbon to Sea Initiative, which provides grant funding to groups pursuing ocean...

There are good reasons to look to tree planting and forestry management to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. In the absence of land use by...

In the last two weeks Charm Industrial has inked two huge commitments for its process of capturing and storing carbon by converting waste...

The Danish Energy Agency has announced a significant contract to turn the biomass plants from Danish power company Ørsted into...

This past week, the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed what the world expected: Starting in 2040, coal plants will be required...

Holcim (until recently called LafargeHolcim) is a giant, international cement and construction materials company, with maybe 8% market...

In the quest for renewable energy sources, hydrogen is emerging as the energy carrier of the future. Today we make hydrogen cheaply from...

Photo by Caleb Jones on Unsplash We have the necessary technology to capture CO2 from the air - that is not in question. There is some...

Image credit: "Scalable, economical, and stable sequestration of agricultural fixed carbon", pnas.org Plants and trees are good at...