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Emergency Carbon Management: Geoengineering
Geoengineering is a set of radical contingency actions to deliberately modify the Earth’s energy balance in order to counteract the adverse impact of human activities on the global ecosystem and climate. The G...
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Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions: Sources and Trends
CO2 and other greenhouse gases are emitted to the atmosphere as a result of both natural processes (e.g., volcanoes, natural vents, and respiration) and human activities. Although the carbon fluxes caused by huma...
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Carbon-Neutral Energy Sources
Among the main approaches to decarbonizing global economy, the switching to carbon-neutral energy sources such as nuclear and renewables (solar, wind, biomass, etc.) is mentioned most often. Nuclear energy is ...
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Transition to Low- and Zero-Carbon Energy and Fuels
Switching from high-carbon to low- and zero-carbon energy sources and fuels is considered Holy Grail of the decarbonization policy. The evolutionary model of the substitution of primary energy sources predicts...
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Introduction to Carbon Civilization
Carbon is the basis of life on our planet: starting from the discovery of fire, our civilization vitally depends on carbon for its energy and livelihood; for this reason, it is often called “Carbon Civilization.”...
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Pathways to Decarbonization of Energy
History of industrial civilization is history of the progression of primary fuel substitution: wood → coal → oil → gas. This evolutionary trend of reducing carbon intensity of primary energy is referred to as dec...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: In the Quest for Clean Fossil Energy
The main objective of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is to prevent CO2 from entering the atmosphere by capturing CO2 from large industrial sources and securely storing it in various carbon sinks. CCS is conside...
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Industrial Utilization of CO2: A Win–Win Solution
Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is an attractive carbon abatement strategy because of its potential for not only preventing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere but also converting CO2 to value-added products: a ...
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Carbon-Negative Options
Considering the slow progress of current carbon mitigation policies, there is a growing recognition that the low-risk levels of atmospheric CO2 cannot be achieved without a significant carbon-negative component. ...
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What Is So Unique About CO2?
Considering that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is extremely low: only 400 ppm or 0.04 vol.%, it is surprising how much impact this gas exerts on life on our planet. What is so unique about CO2? In th...
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Stabilization of Atmospheric CO2: Prospects and Implications
In the face of ever-increasing amounts of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, there have been attempts to estimate the “safe” limits of atmospheric CO2 concentrations in terms of the global mean temperature rise. The no...
