Actually, it traps carbon dioxide
ㆍHumanity produces greenhouse gases. As a result, the Earth’s temtemperature is imbalanced, causing either excessively cold or hot weather.
ㆍWould removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere solve the problem? However, we would also need to find a way to store it.
ㆍ‘Low Carbon’ provides a solution to capture CO2 from the air and recycle it.
Blue hydrogen is not blue
Elon Musk, the CEO of Space X, recently announced that his company will use ‘blue hydrogen’ in its spacecraft. Blue hydrogen means ‘clean hydrogen‘. It is liquefied natural gas (LNG) reformed to produce hydrogen, while capturing and removing carbon dioxide in the process. This is made possible by CCUS technology, which involves capturing and storing or utilizing carbon dioxide.
The state of Florida is currently experiencing the hydrogen wars, as some of the world’s largest space companies are based there. The Florida Space Administration(Space Florida) has recently chosen a South Korean startup called LowCarbon, which specializes in CCUS technology. This company is the first to commercialize DAC, a technology that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air, allowing for the production of carbon-free hydrogen and enabling true carbon neutrality. LowCarbon is currently constructing a carbon dioxide capture facility in the U.S. and anticipates that it will be able to supply blue hydrogen to the Florida Space Agency by 2025 at the latest.
How to make ‘Carbon Zero’ a reality
Low Carbon is currently working on the ‘Uranus project’. It is aimed at producing clean hydrogen by absorbing carbon dioxide, which is a major contributor to global warming. The name Uranus was inspired by the fact that the planet is approximately 83% water. Low Carbon’s CCUS technology works by capturing carbon dioxide from the air and converting it into sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) through a reaction with KLC, which is a carbon dioxide capture agent and conversion catalyst. The converted material can then be used to produce hydrogen. This hydrogen is used to power the carbon dioxide capture device, thus creating a cycle of zero carbon dioxide emissions.
One machine can make 100 pine trees breathe
The carbon dioxide capture device called ZeroC, developed by Low Carbon, uses a Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Unlike conventional methods used in factories or power plants, ZeroC captures CO2 directly from the air rather than from a smokestack. One ZeroC can absorb the same amount of carbon dioxide as 100 30-year-old pine trees. It can capture between 50 to 100 kilograms of CO2 per month and 12 tons per year, occupying only 8 square meters of space. ZeroC is highly versatile and can be installed anywhere, even in urban centers near bus stops, emergency shelters, and smoking areas. In the future, if we install these machines all over the world, they could replace the need for natural forests. One ZeroC can replace 100 pine trees, making it an effective and sustainable method of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
The road we walk on turns to carbon dioxide!
It raises the question of where the captured carbon dioxide will be stored. Low Carbon proposes to permanently sequester carbon dioxide permanently by using it to produce sidewalk blocks and seawalls. The first carbon dioxide sidewalk block has already been constructed in Gangjin Bay Ecological Park in South Korea, and tests have proven it to be stronger than conventional ones. This technology provides a great way to reduce carbon emissions and recycle resources simultaneously. In the future, Low Carbon aims to spread this technology worldwide. It recently collaborated with Vietnamese real estate developer Dai Nam Son Group to export ZeroC to major cities in Vietnam and transfer the technology to resource carbon dioxide for use in Vietnam’s infrastructure construction projects. It won’t be long until CO2 absorbing sidewalk blocks pave the streets.
