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Putting CO2 away for good by turning it into stone

  • Written by Martin Stute, Professor of Environmental Science, Columbia University

We seriously need to do something about CO2 emissions. Besides shifting to renewable energy sources and increasing energy efficiency, we need to start putting some of the CO2 away before it reaches the atmosphere. Perhaps the impacts of human-induced climate change will be so severe that we might even have to capture CO2 from the air and convert...

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