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The Challenge | Warming Planet, Cool Ideas

Your challenge is to examine existing space and Earth projects and systems and adapt them into specific technologies that help stabilize or improve the Earth’s weather, and/or eliminate processes that cause global warming. Your solution could be a technology, a movement, an idea – let your imagination have no bounds!

Carbon Di Oxide's Extinction

We burn plants for energy at a power plant, capture and store the resulting emissions. The CO2 the plants previously absorbed is removed from the atmosphere. The CO2 can be used for enhanced oil recovery or injected into the earth where it is sequestered

Phoenix - rise from the ashes!!

Our team tried to design an efficient methodology to use Biomass and capture carbon di oxide, reuse it and do a proper sequestration.
This will also impact the people as they will be involved in collecting and depositing the potential Biomass from where ever they can. For Example : People will be encouraged to grow energy crops on the roof of their buildings and also on the roofs of commercial places like a shopping mall, in gaps between the roadways and where ever feasible to them. They can then collect and deposit it. In turn they can get Tax rebates and incentives. This will create a revolution.

Secondly we will be using Pyrolysis as the conversion Pathway : Pyrolysis-based conversion involves the thermal decomposition of organic compounds in the absence of oxygen.

  • Pyrolysis produces biochar, a charcoal product that can be used in agricultural soils. Slow pyrolysis occurs over several minutes or days to produce predominately charcoal (biochar).
  • Fast Pyrolysis occurs over a few seconds to produce predominately liquids (bio-oil). This can be used as renewable fuel oil, provide a source of bio-based chemicals, and serve as feedstock for refining into transportation fuels.

Biochar has been suggested as a sequestration agent for agricultural soils. It is recalcitrant to biological degradation and has potential positive impacts on soil quality, including increased fertilizer and water retention and reduction in nitrous oxide emissions from soils.

Resources:

  • https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
  • Smith, P. 2016. Soil carbon sequestration and biochar as negative emission technologies. Global Change Biology
  • Woolf, D., J. E. Amonette, F. A. Street-Perrott, J. Lehmann, and S. Joseph. 2010. Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change. Nature Communications