Sara, Juliana; Stikkelman, Rob M.; Herder, Paulien M. (2015): Assessing relative importance and mutual influence of barriers for CCS deployment of the ROAD project using AHP and DEMATEL methods. In International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 41, pp. 336–357. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.07.008 

"Several carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects around the world were cancelled, delayed or are on hold due to different types of barriers, such as: economic, legal, social and technical. Previous works treat these barriers as independent factors, ignoring potential interactions and possibly providing wrong information. This paper presents the findings of a survey in which experts evaluate the main barriers hampering the deployment of the ROAD project, in the Netherlands."

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"As a geoengineering initiative this would be a far more potent environmental intervention than the fossil fuel industry, since it would take it only ten years to reverse what it has taken well over 100 years of fossil fuel use to achieve. It sounds too good to be true, because surely it’s an overriding objective to bring down today’s high carbon dioxide levels?"

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Uygun, Murat; Singh, Virendra V.; Kaufmann, Kevin; Uygun, Deniz A.; de Oliveira, Severina D S; Wang, Joseph (2015): Micromotor-Based Biomimetic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration: Towards Mobile Microscrubbers. In Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505155 

"We describe a mobile CO₂ scrubbing platform that offers a greatly accelerated biomimetic sequestration based on a self-propelled carbonic anhydrase (CA) functionalized micromotor. The CO₂ hydration capability of CA is coupled with the rapid movement of catalytic micromotors, and along with the corresponding fluid dynamics, results in a highly efficient mobile CO₂ scrubbing microsystem."

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Kuo, Kirsty A.; Hunt, Hugh E. M. (2015): Isothermal pumping analysis for high-altitude tethered balloons. In R. Soc. open sci. 2 (6), p. 140468. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140468 

"This paper examines the pumping requirements of such a delivery system. Cases considered include delivery of hydrogen, sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and powders as fluid-based slurries. Isothermal analysis is used to determine the variation of pressures and velocities along the pipe length. Results show that transport of small quantities of hydrogen to power fuel cells and maintain balloon buoyancy can be achieved at pressures and temperatures that are tolerable in terms of both the pipe strength and the current state of pumping technologies."

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