Six Ways to Pull CO2 Out of the Air (2022)

Six Ways to Pull CO2 Out of the Air

Humans emit billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. Even following the most optimistic predictions, we'll need to remove co2 from the air via carbon capture in order to keep the climate in check.

Currently, many of the ways we go about capturing CO2 from the air are slow, inefficient, and expensive, but as time goes on, these methods of carbon dioxide removal are becoming cheaper and more scalable as carbon capture technology becomes more prominent. So today we're going to look at six ways scientists pull CO2 out of the air.

Hopefully, with these methods, we'll be able to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and clean the world.

Video Timeline
0:00-0:43 -Intro
0:43-2:39 -Forests
2:40-3:42 -Farms
3:42-5:01 -BEECS
5:01-5:47 -Direct Air Capture
5:48-7:03 -Seawater Capture
7:04-7:38 -Enhanced Weathering
7:39-8:05 -Outro

[basicallyeveryone]

Here after Elon Musk offered $100M for the best carbon capture technology to start with my research. Wish me luck.

[internetGOGUY]

We are experiencing low levels of CO2 in our Earth than almost ever before. Plants thrive under these conditions. They also yield more fruit per square inch under higher CO2 levels. Plants naturally create oxygen and animals and plants live in harmony together. By the way, liquid CO2 is a refrigerant.

[jonathansgarden]

Is there anything stopping us from planting forests on large floating barges?

[rmar]

Number 7: calcium carbonate accretion through electrolysis has an incredible ability to pull tones of carbon out of the sea. Furthermore, it could be used to repair existing or to create new reefs. This would create habitats for new marine eco systems to develop, thus removing even more carbon dioxide from the water.

More marine habitats has an added bonus of creating more marine life, thereby helping to feed an ever growing population.

[dontmindme]

Well yeah, "Compost carbon content" is tough to say, but just try saying "Creating clever content communicating carbon capturing cultivates climate consciousness" three times fast!

[Rednuts]

I'm wondering how long could you survive in a sealed room that has had the CO2 removed from your air supply?

[SovietLlamaMC]

Great presentation! I'd like to see the sources of 'some studies' though.

[RadoslavFicko]

Even if it doesn't look like it, the online world helps reduce CO2 emissions (as we don't have to physically move from point A to point B).

[geoffreydonaldson]

All forests don’t pull CO2 out of the air: old growth can, in fact, be a net CO2 emitter when fungal wood decay returns CO2 back into the air. Regenerating forests do absorb a lot of CO2–but only until they reach their capacity. Managing forests for most efficient CO2 absorption is better than letting forests live to their oldest, pre-decadent state. But once they get old, forests are not as good at storing CO2 as you suggest: old-growth is either not growing very fast (not absorbing CO2) or has become decadent (decay is releasing more CO2 than the stand is absorbing since it’s not really growing much, if at all).

[davidvincent]

we need to quadruple our atmospheric CO2 if we ever expect the planet to heal...

[robertwitkowski]

CO2 isn't making the oceans more acidic, it's making the ocean less ionic or less basic or less alkaline, but in order to become more acidic it would have to be acidic in the first place, which the oceans are not! When the pH level drops to 6.9, by all means call the oceans acidic, and when it drops to 6.8, by all means say the oceans are becoming more acidic. Average ocean pH level is 8.2 - not acidic at all.

[MavHunterXX]

Politicians: Pay me to reduce Carbon Emissions
Reality: I'm going to use your money to wipe out rain forests and farms for windmills, solarfarms and biofuel farms so I can charge you more for electricity and fuels.

[MavHunterXX]

All solutions that does not involving planting more plants sounds like they could have catastrophic results because we're using machines to "pull co2" from the environment. Don't forget, plants live on the stuff.

[sm_]

Hello, do you have any suggestions for co2 separation in the wellbore? I'm thinking of removing the co2 down hole before it reaches the surface.

[russella]

Here we go again: 0:01 Why do so many people still insist on illustrating CO2 emissions or other pollutants by showing cooling towers whose only emission is clouds of water droplets. FYI Even nuclear power stations have cooling towers. Just makes me question the intelligence and knowledge of the presenter / content provider If they can’t tell the difference between H20 and CO2.

[mahanandashindale]

Sir please tell me which solution is use in direct capture co2 from air

[waylonbarrett]

I can't see the merit of planting trees as a strategy. Can someone help me understand?

[eliogybran]

Can’t they extract the CO2 at a certain extend and store and release where needed ?

[rudigereichler]

Just make sure it stays above the limit when plants cannot breath any longer. CO2 is the source of carbon for all life on earth. H2O is the source of hydrogen. We had CO2 5 times as much as now a long time ago when life was flourishing on planet earth. Do not destroy it.

[osmanahmed]

If he didn’t have that little caption about the plural of fish almost everyone in the comments would’ve said “fish!”😂