Oregon Scientist Working To Get Carbon Out Of Atmosphere

CORVALIS, Ore. – Over the next three years, Oregon State University researchers will be tackling one of the biggest technological challenges of our time — removing climate change-causing carbon from the atmosphere.

“We’re designing technologies, or chemistry in my case, that will capture carbon dioxide just out of ambient air,” said OSU chemist May Nyman. “A lot of the focus so far on capturing CO2 is at the source — at power plants. It’s much more challenging to capture it out of just ambient air because it’s like 50 times less concentrated.”

The university will receive $1.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop new carbon-capture methods.

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