Power, Ian M.; Paulo, Carlos; Long, Hannah; Lockhart, Justin A.; Stubbs, Amanda R.; French, David; Caldwell, Robert (2021): Carbonation, Cementation, and Stabilization of Ultramafic Mine Tailings. In Environmental science & technology 55 (14), pp. 10056–10066. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01570. "A promising approach for de-risking brucite-bearing ultramafic tailings is in situ cementation via carbon dioxide (CO2) mineralization, which also sequesters this greenhouse gas within carbonate minerals. In cylindrical test experiments, brucite [Mg(OH)2] carbonation was accelerated by coupling organic and inorganic carbon cycling. Waste organics generated CO2 concentrations similar to that of flue gas (up to 19%)." LINK
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" Your task is to choose carbon removal approaches to scale up by moving the colored sliders below until you reach 10 gigatons." LINK
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Li, Wei; Ciais, Philippe; Han, Mengjie; Zhao, Qing; Chang, Jinfeng; Goll, Daniel S. et al. (2021): Bioenergy Crops for Low Warming Targets Require Half of the Present Agricultural Fertilizer Use. In Environmental science & technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c02238. "Here, we use an observation-driven approach to estimate the future bioenergy biomass production for land-use scenarios maximizing BECCS and the pertaining nutrient requirements." LINK
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Goll, Daniel S.; Ciais, Philippe; Amann, Thorben; Buermann, Wolfgang; Chang, Jinfeng; Eker, Sibel et al. (2021): Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock. In Nat. Geosci., pp. 1–5. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00798-x. "Here we explore soil amendment with powdered basalt in natural ecosystems." LINK
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"The problem we face lies not in the future, but of the here and now as a result of our previous emissions. Tackling this will require the deployment of negative emissions technologies – technologies or approaches which take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere." LINK
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