Arizona companies building tech to reduce carbon emissions
CarbonCapture Inc. is building as large manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, to produce systems to remove carbon dioxide, or CO2, from the atmosphere. The technology is essential U.S. efforts to develop a clean energy economy and reduce the environmentally harmful greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. The U.S. Department of Energy seeks to enable 100% carbon pollution-free electricity and net-zero emissions within the next 25 years. The ASU Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, directed by Klaus Lackner, a professor in the Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, is leading work to help meet those goals. (The article originally appeared in Cronkite News: Arizona companies building tech to reduce carbon emissions, October 22.)