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Atmospheric carbon capture - a cost effective alternative?
Capture, Feb 20 2009 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- In a recent paper, Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research asserts that 'air capture' – that is, direct removal of carbon dioxide from the air – deserves far more serious consideration than it has received to date.
Tom Jacobs reports on Miller-McCune.com, a nonprofit website focused on new academic research, that extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and sequestering it underground is potentially more economical than other proposed methods of dealing with the problem.
In the paper Pielke goes on to say that "the costs over the 21st century of deploying air capture to fully stabilize greenhouse gas emissions are comparable to, and under some assumptions more favorable than, the costs of stabilization presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
He argues that "more attention should be paid to research, development and deployment" of this technology.
