How Thermodynamics Holds Back Negative Carbon Tech
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Direct Air Capture (DAC) has been getting more and more attention over the last few years. Could we avert climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere? Could we not just stop, but actually *reverse* the damage done? Unfortunately, most don’t fully appreciate just quite how much CO2 we’ve emitted and the outrageous scale of the problem facing us. Today, we apply the fundamental principles of thermodynamics to question whether this is even feasible.
Written & presented by Prof. David Kipping. Edited by Jorge Casas. Fact checking by Alexandra Masegian.
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REFERENCES
► House, K. Z. et al. 2011, “Economic and energetic analysis of capturing CO2 from ambient air“, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 108(51), 20428-33:
► Lackner, K. S. 2013, “The thermodynamics of direct air capture of carbon dioxide“, Energy, 50, 38:
► Long-Innes, R. & Struchtrup, H. 2022, “Thermodynamic loss analysis of a liquid- sorbent direct air carbon capture plant“, Cell Reports Physical Science, 3, 100791:
► Ozkan, M. et al., 2022, “Current status and pillars of direct air capture technologies“, iScience, 25, 103990:
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► Falls - Life in Binary [3:24]
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► Hill - To Quiet the Drumming Inside My Head [11:13]
► Hill - Chasing out the Chaos [15:29]
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Climate Change
2:44 Removal Requirements
3:38 Possible Solutions
5:03 Introducing DAC
5:43 Climate Anxiety
7:12 DAC Principles
8:14 Scalability
9:29 Thermodynamics
12:08 Progressive DAC
13:32 RCPs
15:09 Simulations
17:03 Energy Requirements
19:34 Efficiency
21:21 Conclusions
24:35 Outro and credits
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