Media response to Highfield (2012a) and Highfield (2012b). "Possible, but expensive, methods include burying the gas underground between rock layers or ‘scrubbing’ the CO2in power station cooling towers before it is released."

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Mazzotti, Marco; Baciocchi, Renato; Desmond, Michael J.; Socolow, Robert H. (2013): Direct air capture of CO2 with chemicals. optimization of a two-loop hydroxide carbonate system using a countercurrent air-liquid contactor. In: Climatic Change 118 (1), pp. 119–135. DOI 10.1007/s10584-012-0679-y

On Direct Air Capture. "Two new correlations are developed that relate mass transfer and pressure drop to the air and liquid flow velocities in the countercurrent packed absorption column."

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"Whether streaming from the tailpipes of cars or the smokestacks of so many power plants and factories, carbon dioxide emissions keep growing around the globe."

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15.10.2012, Oxford/UK

Seminar with Peter Eisenberg und Graciela Chichilnisky on direct air capture.

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