Monat: Februar 2019

Peer-reviewed Publications

Bellamy, R.; et al. (2019): Perceptions of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in different policy scenarios

Bellamy, R.; Lezaun, J.; Palmer, J. (2019): Perceptions of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in different policy scenarios. In: Nat Comms 10 (1), S. 743. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08592-5.

„There is growing interest in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) as a possible technology for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. In the first study of its kind, we investigate whether and how different forms of incentivisation impact on public perceptions of this technology. We develop a new experimental method to triangulate perceptions of BECCS in different policy scenarios through quantitative measurement and qualitative elicitation. Here we show that the type of policy instrument used to incentivise BECCS significantly affects perceptions of the technology itself.“

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Foreign Affairs: Less Than Zero

„Most Americans used to think about climate change—to the extent that they thought about it at all—as an abstract threat in a distant future. But more and more are now seeing it for what it is: a costly, human-made disaster unfolding before their very eyes.“

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ScienceDaily: Carbon dioxide sequestration accompanied by bioenergy generation using a bubbling-type photosynthetic algae microbial fuel cell

„Researchers have proposed a design solution that could bring artificial leaves out of the lab and into the environment. Their improved leaf, which would use carbon dioxide — a potent greenhouse gas — from the air, would be at least 10 times more efficient than natural leaves at converting carbon dioxide to fuel.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Li, M.; et al. (2019): Carbon dioxide sequestration accompanied by bioenergy generation using a bubbling-type photosynthetic algae microbial fuel cell

Li, M.; Zhou, M.; Luo, J.; Tan, C.; Tian, X.; Su, P.; Gu, T. (2019): Carbon dioxide sequestration accompanied by bioenergy generation using a bubbling-type photosynthetic algae microbial fuel cell. In: Bioresource Technology 280, S. 95–103. DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.038.

„This study developed a bubbling-type photosynthetic algae microbial fuel cell (B-PAMFC) to treat synthetic wastewater and capture CO2 using Chlorella vulgaris with simultaneous power production. The performance of B-PAMFC in CO2 fixation and bioenergy production was compared with the photosynthetic algae microbial fuel cell (PAMFC) and bubbling photobioreactor. Different nitrogen sources for C. vulgaris growth, namely sodium nitrate, urea, ammonium acetate and acetamide were studied.“

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Science-Policy Documents

CEPS: Sinking to Zero: the role of carbon capture and negative emissions in EU climate policy

„The updated EU long-term climate strategy with its net-zero emissions objective and the IPCC’s Special Report on the 1.5°C target prompt a renewed strategic look at negative emissions and carbon capture. Reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions requires more carbon sinks and other approaches to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.“

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Chatham House: Cool idea or hi-tech madness?

„As the threat from climate change looms ever larger, growing attention is being paid to proposals that sound as if they come straight from a sci-fi novel. One idea is to spray the stratosphere with particulates to reflect sunlight, thus reducing the temperature of planet Earth.“

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Legal Planet: Does the Fossil Fuel Industry Support Geoengineering?

„Geoengineering is controversial in the climate change community, and understandably so. Proposed interventions like negative emissions technologies (a.k.a. carbon dioxide removal) and solar geoengineering (a.k.a. solar radiation management or SRM) involve large-scale intervention in the climate system that could have adverse physical or social impacts. At the same time, some geoengineering methods could substantially reduce climate change.“

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MIT Technology Review: This alarmingly simple hack could let anyone tinker with the climate

„Adapting balloons into geoengineering devices may simply require mixing helium with a few kilograms of sulfur dioxide, a compound that in the stratosphere is converted into sulfuric acid, which in turn casts away heat. Pressure will build inside each balloon as it ascends, until it bursts somewhere above 20 kilometers (12 miles),[nbsp]scattering its contents into the atmosphere.“

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