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Carbon-Capture Tech Mimics The Seashell Forming Process | IE

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Researchers from UCLA are developing a technology that sucks carbon from the atmosphere in a process that mimics the formation of seashells.

A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is developing a technology that captures carbon from the atmosphere in a process that mimics the formation of seashells on the ocean floor, a report by Fast Company explains. Humanity faces an increasingly difficult task reducing the amount of carbon in our atmosphere in order to reverse the detrimental effects of climate change — human activity releases an estimated 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Mimicking the ocean’s natural CO2 extraction processes Several startups are developing methods to…

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