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🗞️ Driving the news: A new technology, developed by Jess Adkins of Caltech, aims to trap CO2 emissions from cargo ships and store it in the ocean as bicarbonate salts, effectively locking away the carbon for 100,000 years
🔭 The context: International shipping, responsible for 3% of global carbon emissions, is struggling to meet climate targets due to slow adoption of low-emission fuels
• Calcarea, a startup founded by Adkins, is developing reactors that mimic natural ocean processes to rapidly convert CO2 from ship exhaust into harmless ocean salts
🌍 Why it matters for the planet: This technology could significantly reduce CO2 emissions from shipping, a major contributor to global trade emissions, providing a sustainable way to store carbon and mitigate climate change
⏭️ What's next: Calcarea plans to address engineering challenges and logistics for full-scale reactor implementation on ships, aiming for their first prototype to be operational soon, with tailored reactors for various ship sizes
💬 One quote: "If we can just speed it up, we have a shot at a safe and permanent way of storing CO2," said Jess Adkins, founder of Calcarea
📈 One stat: International shipping accounts for about 3% of the world’s carbon emissions
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