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Sample of activated charcoal used to capture carbon dioxide

Electrified charcoal ‘sponge’ can soak up CO2 directly from the air

05 Jun 2024

Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.

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Carbon capture from air and its photoelectrochemical conversion into fuel with simultaneous waste plastic conversion into chemicals.

Clean, sustainable fuels made ‘from thin air’ and plastic waste

19 Jun 2023

Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into...

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Close-up image of pink rocks

Offshore carbon storage deployment and research needs to scale up for UK to deliver net zero pledge, says report

19 Oct 2022

The UK will need to step up research and deployment of new offshore carbon storage wells if it is to achieve the capacity required to deliver its net...

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Fluid mechanics and the energy transition

14 Oct 2022

Decarbonisation of the energy system is the greatest challenge we face. At Cambridge’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, world-leading...

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Two smiling scientists in a lab

Low-cost battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges

19 May 2022

Researchers have developed a low-cost device that can selectively capture carbon dioxide gas while it charges. Then, when it discharges, the CO2 can...

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Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

23 Jan 2018

An international symposium at Singapore’s CREATE campus highlights the global challenges of sustainable energy and suggests innovative ways of...

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Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions

25 Oct 2017

An international collaboration between universities and industry will further develop carbon capture and storage technology – one of the best hopes...

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Carbon dioxide can be stored underground for ten times the length needed to avoid climatic impact

28 Jul 2016

Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old CO2 reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn’t leaked...

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Power plant

Global learning is needed to save carbon capture and storage from being abandoned

11 Jan 2016

Governments should not be abandoning carbon capture and storage, argues a Cambridge researcher, as it is the only realistic way of dramatically...

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New glass manufacturing technique could enable design of hybrid glasses and revolutionise gas storage

28 Aug 2015

A new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of ‘designer glasses’ with applications in advanced photonics, whilst also...

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Evolution of the pink diffusive boundary layer formed by geochemical reactions

Geochemical reactions may decrease effectiveness of carbon storage schemes

05 Jan 2015

New research shows that the natural reactions taking place in some of the underground reservoirs used to store carbon dioxide may prevent carbon...

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Energy city

Cambridge Ideas - The future of energy?

30 Jul 2012

Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy - with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate.

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