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🗞️ Driving the news: MIT-alumni-founded company Mantel has developed an innovative carbon capture technology using molten salts to capture CO2 emissions from factories and power plants
• The system, which reduces emissions by 95%, also recycles the heat to generate steam, improving energy efficiency and making carbon capture more financially viable
🔭 The context: Traditional carbon capture systems often fail to be cost-effective, requiring significant energy inputs
• Mantel's breakthrough uses molten lithium-sodium ortho-borate salts, which retain their ability to absorb CO2 over multiple cycles, offering a more sustainable and profitable solution for heavy industrial emissions
🌍 Why it matters for the planet: With industrial sectors like cement, steel, and oil contributing heavily to global emissions, scalable carbon capture technologies like Mantel’s are essential for achieving climate targets
• The system's efficiency and ability to integrate into existing infrastructure could accelerate the widespread adoption of carbon capture, making a tangible contribution to mitigating climate change
⏭️ What's next: Mantel plans to expand its technology, with a partnership to test a new system at a Kruger Inc. factory in Quebec
• The success of this pilot could lead to broader deployments across industries worldwide, including refineries and data centers
💬 One quote: “This is a pragmatic solution that’s not trying to reshape the world as we dream of it. It’s looking at the problem at hand today and fixing it,” said Cameron Halliday, CEO of Mantel
📈 One stat: Mantel’s system reduces CO2 emissions by approximately 95% and delivers steam, reducing net energy consumption to just 3% of traditional carbon capture systems
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