{"id":565,"date":"2024-12-31T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:18:18","slug":"integrating-climate-and-physical-constraints-into-assessments-of-net-capture-from-direct-air-capture-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/2024\/integrating-climate-and-physical-constraints-into-assessments-of-net-capture-from-direct-air-capture-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating climate and physical constraints into assessments of net capture from direct air capture facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Integrating climate and physical constraints into assessments of net capture from direct air capture facilities\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Few credible experts see how we\u2019ll reach net-zero emissions without actively removing carbon dioxide out of the air, perhaps through direct air capture technologies. This has become an active research area over the past two decades, but most existing work doesn\u2019t consider how ambient environmental conditions\u2014temperature, humidity, pressure, and carbon dioxide concentration\u2014affect these engineered systems, which need to process massive amounts of atmospheric air to remove the carbon dioxide. Our group recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2410824121\">published a paper in PNAS<\/a>\u2014the first to model how these plants would <em>actually <\/em>perform across the globe, considering different weather conditions, different emissions from electric power systems worldwide (some of which are dirtier than others), and different emissions from natural gas systems (some of which are leakier than others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is intended to stimulate serious discussion of the role of direct air capture technologies in nationally determined contributions submitted to UNFCCC. For nations that are making large bets on carbon dioxide removal despite having poor or fair conditions for the deployment of direct air capture, our work should stimulate discussion of cross-border carbon accounting mechanisms that would allow these nations to subsidize deployment in regions with more appropriate climatic conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few credible experts see how we\u2019ll reach net-zero emissions without actively removing carbon dioxide out of the air, perhaps through direct air capture technologies. This has become an active research area over the past two decades, but most existing work doesn\u2019t consider how ambient environmental conditions\u2014temperature, humidity, pressure, and carbon dioxide concentration\u2014affect these engineered systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}