News article about improved zeolites (basically, minerals with holes in them) that could improve carbon capture technology. This is important because despite all our important efforts to implement other sources (renewables, and of course my favorite, nuclear), we're going to be stuck with CO2 emissions for quite awhile. So if better technology can make CC more acceptable and more widely used, then go for it, energy producers.
By the way, the reason this is important is that it improves the efficiency of CC because it reduces the amount of energy lost during the CC process.
New materials could slash energy costs for CO2 capture
... researchers found that commonly used industrial minerals called zeolites could significantly improve the energy efficiency of "carbon capture" technology.
"It looks like we can beat the current state-of-the-art technology by about 30 percent, and not just with one or two zeolites," said study co-author Michael Deem, Rice's John W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering and professor of physics and astronomy."Our analysis showed that dozens of zeolites are more efficient than the amine ab-sorbents currently used for CO2 capture."
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