While researchers in Colorado were cleaning out the city's industrial septic tanks and waste water, they discovered a method to capture carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses and turn it into energy. This process is called Microbial Electrolytic Carbon Capture. In this process, engineers used chemicals and electricity to clean the water, while having a negative carbon impact. This is important because this could help more industries to become environmentally friendly, and once the carbon is captured it can be used as a construction material or as a material to help reduce the acidity of the ocean. Also, this process creates more hydrogen, which is another source of usable energy.
Though Microbial Electrolytic Carbon Capture is nothing but positive, both for our oceans and atmosphere, some industries may not want to adopt the method due to settled routines or because of pricey machinery. A solid solution to this hesitation by industries to adopt the MECC plan is that the Environmental Protection Agency will actually require industries to reduce their carbon emissions by the year 2020, so some may be forced to adopt this plan anyways. Personally, I feel that all companies should adopt this negative carbon emission plan because our planet has way too much carbon being absorbed into the oceans and our atmosphere every day, so this will be a good thing.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150804093720.htm
I absolutely agree with Ginny. I think this newfound method is very promising in reducing carbon emissions and helping with the restoration of a healthy environment. With a growing population and demand for energy, renewable energy from hydrogen gas is definitely a positive. MECC seems simpler and safer compared to previous wastewater treatment methods. It saddens me to think the cost is something that deters industries from adopting this method. MECC actually sounds cost effective being executed on sight without transportation and storage costs. This method could be beneficial for a wide range of industries, ecosystems, and species. Unfortunately, it’s gonna require more effort and sacrifice from humans to ultimately save the environment from more harm.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very outstanding new method. Most of our environmental problems in the world today is due to global warming. This method would not only take away our greenhouse gases and slow down global warming, but also create energy with it. I totally agree with your solution, making companies use this new method would definitely decrease the amount of carbon emissions. However, as you said, the biggest barriers would be participation and cost. Many business are only focused on acquiring money and have no interest in the problems they create. It's disappointing that even though we have a way to slow down global warming, businesses don't adopt it.
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