Top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News /Scientific papers from the past week covered in a ๐งตbelow: โฌ๏ธ
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1๏ธโฃ ๐"Dalhousie receives historic $154โmillion investment to study the oceanโs pivotal role in climate change. The ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ in Dalhousie history"! @planetary_tech
3๏ธโฃ๐ฑ๐"@FastCompany, the progressive business media brand, has announced #EnhancedRockWeathering firm @LithosCarbon the winner of this year's General Excellence Award, as part of their annual World Changing Ideas campaign."
4๏ธโฃ๐ฐFrontier, a climate fund, had announced the start of its 2023 #CarbonRemoval prepurchase cycle, with a pre-application deadline of May 19, 2023.
5๏ธโฃ "Stanfordโs sustainability school chose #GreenhouseGasRemoval after input from fossil-fuel executives. Critics say the industryโs involvement is cause for concern."
6๏ธโฃ ๐ณ๐ฒ"#CarbonSequestration in forest ecosystems is key to mitigating climate change, so new paper examines carbon rotation ages that consider commercial timber and carbon values."
7๏ธโฃโ๏ธ Researchers "proposed a graphical approach that has a potential to be used as a planning tool to #decarbonize the energy sector involving interdependent energy sources & #NegativeEmissionTechnologies."
9๏ธโฃ๐ฒA study based in China assessed "the spatial-temporal #CSR/ area for #Afforestation & #Reforestation at the regional, prefecture & county levels using a forest #CarbonSequestration model under 3 climate scenarios."
๐๐"Improved land management, more aggressive #CarbonEmissionsReduction & #CDR will be needed to reach time flagged carbon neutrality targets after considering the adjustment in the terrestrial #CarbonSink, a new study justified."
1๏ธโฃ1๏ธโฃโ๏ธ Delft University of Technology's recently released thesis focuses on "the design & development of a #DirectAirCapture model in Python using Lewatit VP OC 1065 as the #AmineBasedSorbent." ๐๏ธ
1๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃโ Researchers proposed a model to assess "the viability of #CarbonDioxideStorage in offshore formations of the Gulf of Mexico at a scale relevant for climate-change mitigation."
1๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ โ๏ธ Study funded by German Ministry for Education & Research explored "various factors that impact the volume of #CDR in pathways, such as discount rates, C price trajectories, & scenario design choices."
"One of the planetโs most vital #CarbonSinks i.e. SOUTHERN OCEAN (SO) (absorbs ~40% of C) is revealing its secrets as tiny organisms in the SO play an outsized role in moderating Earthโs #climate."
Details from the recent research are discussed in a๐งตโฌ๏ธ 1/8
"Based on 107 independent observations of the seasonal cycle from 63 #biogeochemical profiling floats, new study conducted by scientists from #NOAA & University of Hawai'i provide the basin-scale estimate of distinct biogenic #CarbonPool production at Southern Ocean." 2/8
Researchers find "significant meridional variability with enhanced #ParticulateOrganicCarbon production in the subantarctic & polar Antarctic sectors & enhanced #DissolvedOrganicCarbon production in the subtropical & sea-ice-dominated sectors." 3/8
"One of the planetโs most vital #CarbonSinks i.e. SOUTHERN OCEAN (SO) (absorbs ~40% of C) is revealing its secrets as tiny organisms in the SO play an outsized role in moderating Earthโs #climate."
Details from the recent research are discussed in a๐งตโฌ๏ธ 1/8
"Based on 107 independent observations of the seasonal cycle from 63 #biogeochemical profiling floats, new study conducted by scientists from #NOAA & University of Hawai'i provide the basin-scale estimate of distinct biogenic #CarbonPool production at Southern Ocean." 2/8
Researchers find "significant meridional variability with enhanced #ParticulateOrganicCarbon production in the subantarctic & polar Antarctic sectors & enhanced #DissolvedOrganicCarbon production in the subtropical & sea-ice-dominated sectors." 3/8
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"Six models are used in a recent study to analyze the climatic, environmental & socio-economic consequences of #overshooting a C budget consistent with the 1.5ยฐC temp target along the cause-effect chain from emissions & #CarbonRemovals to climate risks & impact."
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"Global climatic indicators such as CO2-concentration and mean temperature closely follow the #CarbonBudget#overshoot with mid-century peaks of 50 ppmv and 0.35ยฐC, respectively."
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Findings of this study highlight that "investigating #overshoot scenarios requires temporally and spatially differentiated analysis of climate, environmental and socioeconomic systems."
3/10
โ๏ธ"Policy concern: whether forests should be left unharvested to reduce CO2 #emissions & store C, or harvested to take advantage of potential #CarbonStorage & #removal."
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So, new study addressed this issue "by examining C rotation ages that consider commercial timber and C values. A discrete-time optimal rotation age model is developed that uses data on C #fluxes stored in living & dead biomass as opposed to C as a function of timber growth." 2/8
"Carbon is allocated to several ecosystem and post-harvest product pools that decay over time at different rates. In addition, the timing of #CarbonFluxes is taken into account by weighting future carbon fluxes as less important than current ones." 3/8
๐Recent study "presents the mass balances linked with #CarbonDioxideRemoval using seawater as both the source of reactants & as the reaction medium via electrolysis following the โEquaticโ (formerly known as โSeaChangeโ) process."
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"The #Equatic process, broadly detailed in (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10โฆ), involves the application of an electric overpotential that splits H2O to form H+ & OHโ ions, producing #acidity & #alkalinity, i.e., in addition to gaseous coproducts at the anode & cathode, respectively."
2/12
"The #alkalinity that results, i.e., via the steady electrolytic pH pump results in the rapid precipitation of CaCO3, hydrated magnesium #carbonates (e.g., nesquehonite & hydromagnesite, etc.) or Mg(OH)2 depending on the carbonate ion-activity in solution."
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In this regard, a new study is published, details โฌ๏ธ
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๐ฒResearchers assessed "the spatial-temporal #CarbonSequestrationRate (CSR) per area for #Afforestation & #Reforestation at the provincial, prefectural, and county levels in China using a forest carbon sequestration model under three climate scenarios."
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๐ณ๐ฑResults showed that "the #CSR of vegetation (CSRVeg), soil (CSRSoil), and the ecosystem (CSREco) significantly varied across space and time. In China, the CSRVeg, CSRSoil, and CSREco were primarily regulated by the spatial variations in temperature and precipitation."
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