TEEN MAKES A DIY CO2 CAPTURE DEVICE! HELP SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE!

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[MatthewEverhart]

Congratulations - people like you hold the keys to our future on this planet. Bravo.

[Bradley-btcy]

Awesome project! I had and AI write up step by step directions from the transcript:

Obtain materials - PVC pipes, end caps, elbow joints, glue, drill, fan, tubing, misting nozzles, pump, potassium hydroxide (KOH), water, and a power source.
Cut and assemble the PVC pipe into a column shape with space for the fan at the bottom and misting nozzles at the top. Glue all joints.
Drill holes near the top to install misting nozzles. Attach tubing from the pump to the nozzles.
Install the fan at the bottom of the column, connected to a power source.
Make a platform or stand to elevate the column.
Obtain or build an enclosure for testing, like a cardboard box with holes for tubing.
Make KOH solution by mixing food-grade KOH pellets with water. Start with 10-20% solution.
Connect pump to power and place KOH solution reservoir above the pump inlet.
Turn on fan and pump to mist KOH solution down through the column while drawing air up.
Use CO2 meter to test ppm levels inside enclosure before and during operation.
Monitor and adjust misting rate, KOH concentration as needed to optimize CO2 removal.
Drain spent KOH solution and replace with fresh batches as needed.

[RandyB]

Brilliant work. I was actually looking into this as a firefighter for the climate stuff as well as hoping to find a way to get concentrated CO2 to put out fires. You see many cheap fire extinguishers you have in your house are ABC dry chem. This chem happens to be extremely corrosive to metals meaning anything you put out will be destroyed worse than the fire itself much of the time. We have alternative extinguishing agents like water, deionized water (which is a strange feeling to use on electrical fires), halotrons, foams, dry powders, but most interesting to me, is CO2. CO2 being inert will not destroy components in a computer for example or degrade metals. Ofc at high concentrations you could displace oxygen, which would be bad, but you're aiming the CO2 to concentrate in the fire area. However, these extinguishers are very expensive and hard to find unless you're a fire department with a nice township budget. All this to say, we could find an answer to storage in extensive use of CO2 fire extinguishers. It could be marketed to get some revenue and make non-corrosvie extinguishers more available while holding the CO2 unless it is needed in an emergecy. It is worth noting the dry chem still has its place for class A fires. CO2 has a hard time with burning trash, wood, etc.

[SGFY]

Really cool stuff - this deserves more views. With carbon capture tech I suspect things will pan out in a similar way to the energy sector in that it will initially start with centralised, large scale operations under government subsidies, then slowly transition to modular, low-cost, small-scale consumer products. In my existential crisis after my university graduation, it's been on my mind to start a business doing something like this so it's really cool to see others thinking about this approach!

[nikushim]

Just one problem, Reaction of Co2 to Koh results in K2CO3, once your KOH is spent that's it. You would then have remove the K2CO3 from solution and heat it to high temperature decomposing it back to KOH (while also capturing and compressing the CO2 released for storage). The entire process takes a VARY large amount of energy (Generating more carbon emissions then its removing in the process)

[iamdev]

Amazing Brandon!!! It’s really inspiring…..I hope people like you become the real influence in this world not celebrities!
Keep winning my friend I hope you create something which will save our environment!
Wishing you all the best and tons and tons of great health.
Love from
India ❤️🇮🇳

[DanSohan]

Like to see another version, would using some form of fabric that allows gas to pass while wet increase surface areas. Be good to see just how much CO2 can be removed from an area of know volume.

[Validus_news]

Your idea is perfect man however the one problem that scientists are facing is if you want to make this project on a large scale it requires a huge amount of energy which came either from coal or burning fossil fuel thus in this way we will release a huge amount of co2 then we did nothing . NICE to met u steve

[milesconway]

Watching how the polar ice melt is affecting the animal life and hoping to see a solution before I go 😢

[Unduplicatable]

The amount of resources, materials, and co2 produced in order to produce this device are exponentially greater than the co2 it could feasibly capture in many lifetimes.

[beachscanner]

this is great work. from my limited understanding it is now possible to convert what you have to coal through another chemical process that is at room temp

[livingdead]

I’m very interested in a update! Keep
Pushing on carbon capture! There are some micro sprinkler misters at home depo in the plumbing area. I would like too see carbon captured and pressed in too a block or a solar fan. Thanks👍

[renzdevera]

Can you make a diagram? I am actually building a sort of modular biosphere that is isolated from the outside world. It is a closed system with plants and animals living together without any contact outside (like a mini-earth) and i would love to test what if i increase the amount of carbon dioxide, can the machine scrub it out? It's a perfect fit actually 🙌

[mjkeith]

How about a block diagram of the pieces-parts and then a description of the flow?

[paperchase]

I'm your 666 subscriber love the effort and design hope to learn and see more on this channel

[angelusmendez]

Have u ever heard about those things they call "trees"?

Bad joke 😂 Great project, we need more people like you.

You can recycle the KOH mixing it with CaOH filter it and you're done. U can also use directly CaOH wich I think is cheaper and has less carbon footprint than KOH

Speaking of those things they call "trees", there are some plants that "lock" carbon for centuries in silica cells called "phytoliths" (bamboo, coconuts, mangroves, etc).

Keep building, inspiring and sharing, cheers!

[KirinKugoo]

We need more young thinkers and doers like yourself IV nothing but admiration keep up the good fight and keep thinking outside the box buddy

[CharlieMacklin]

Awesome work thanks for the shout out! I think the design you have going looks pretty solid. And I'm super appreciative of the fact you took up the torch, tested the idea, and found that it does actually work.

Now the hard parts; it is a trace amount of carbon, but since you are using purified potassium hydroxide, by tracking the pH and through chemical testing it can be shown how much potassium carbonate was created, so we can get an idea of productivity.

The tricky part, which I need to research further, is tracing the sources and tracing the process. For example, we need to know HOW that potassium hydroxide was created...of it can be done using saltwater and solar panels? Minerals mined? Trees chopped down and burned? We need to know so that the device isn't supporting an industry that hurts the environment specifically to create the product. That being said, if we can find potassium hydroxide or magnesium hydroxide or calcium hydroxide as byproduct of an other industry, then it really starts to become viable.

The unit would always need to be powered by natural energy (solar, wind, hydroelectric, etc) because otherwise we are adding more petrol to the atmosphere just to take a little bit out.

If the final product, which is a carbonate salt, can then be sold or otherwise used for something, perhaps a construction material, chalky product or plaster like product, or perhaps as a soil additive or fertilizer, then you've got a product to sell.

One idea that strikes me is to use the waste water, once the pH has been reduced to what plant roots can tolerate, that nutrient and carbon rich water can then be used to grow food via hydroponics, although the plants or algae would have to be alkaline tolerant.

The challenges are many, but I'm glad to see your good work!

[reubendias]

Great working prototype! Obviously these would work in places where it's difficult to grow trees and maintain them.

[miguelbaca]

Next video should explore how to separate the carbon from the solution to then store it? Excited to see how this develops!