With varying climate conditions around the world, where are the most cost-effective locations to deploy direct air capture facilities?
Nature’s metal organic frameworks
It was believed that MOFs were a purely synthetic construct, but discoveries of natural examples have shaken this perception.
Science fiction to reality: Space-based solar power
With climate change, the weaponization of energy, lower satellite launch costs, incentives to harness space-based solar power are on the horizon.
Is hydrogen a greenhouse gas and do we care?
Hydrogen fuel alternatives are expected to help combat climate change, but what are the impacts of hydrogen emissions?
Direct air capture: A little history
Direct air capture can find its roots in antiquity and will be a major technology for the future.
Molten salts help capture carbon at high temperatures
Molten salts are renowned for operating at high temperatures and are ideal as a new generation of carbon capture media.
Supercharging carbon dioxide capture
A new carbon capture technique called supercapacitive swing adsorption separates carbon dioxide from gaseous mixtures in the air and industrial flue gases.
Solar kerosene: One giant leap for humankind
The production of kerosene directly from carbon dioxide and water promises to be a game-changer in the energy field.
Photosynthesis of green methanol from methane
Getting around the high C-H bond dissociation energy in methane has been a challenge to making methanol from natural gas — until now.
Turbocharged chemistry: Do we have time to think?
Are we spending enough quality time dreaming up ideas or are we spreading ourselves thin?