[Terrapreta] New materials provide a potentially cheaper way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

[Michael Bailes]

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> riday, February 15, 2008A Better Way to Capture Carbon
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> New materials provide a potentially cheaper way to reduce carbon dioxide
> emissions from power plants.
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> By Kevin Bullis
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>   [image: smaller text tool icon]<http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20295/#>[image:
> medium text tool icon] <http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20295/#>[image:
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> *Carbon-capturing crystals:* This is an optical micrograph of a new
> material that can pull carbon dioxide from a stream of gases, making it
> possible to sequester the greenhouse gas.
> Credit: Omar Yaghi
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> Researchers have developed porous materials that can soak up 80 times
> their volume of carbon dioxide, offering the tantalizing possibility that
> the greenhouse gas could be cheaply scrubbed from power-plant smokestacks.
> After the carbon dioxide has been absorbed by the new materials, it could be
> released through pressure changes, compressed, and, finally, pumped
> underground for long-term storage.
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 http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20295/

So what happens to the crystals after they have stored CO2?

Does the CO2 never escape?

Can the crystals be used as a soil amendment?

Does charcoal adsorb CO2?

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