Professor Simson Co-Authors WIRED.com Article

POSTED ON: December 14, 2017

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Photo Credit: Wentao Zhang

Photo Credit: Wentao Zhang

Professor Amanda Simson, assistant professor of chemical engineering, co-writes  a WIRED.COM feature titled "The Dirty Secret of the World's Plan to Avert Climate Disaster", exploring the technology behind "negative emissions" and whether it can help us reach climate goals set forth by the Paris agreement. The article investigates whether we can pull carbon dioxide directly out of thin air, a process called direct air capture, and how much systems like this might cost.

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