Kristi Kattapong 
“The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a harsh mistress—it says you’ll always lose energy converting spent fuel back into fuel. However, when renewables become cheap and abundant, as they are locally today, the opportunity becomes arbitraging energy for money. That’s very, very hard, but no longer lunacy.“ Dr. Friedmann is one of the most widely…
Volker Sick was recently interviewed by Benoît Morenne of the Wall Street Journal about the future of captured CO2 “Consumers will need reassurance that some of these new products are safe, says Volker Sick, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and director of the Global CO2 Initiative, a research group that…
1. Emerging Electrochemical Processes for Integration with CO2 Capture Due Monday, March 14, 2022 Organizers: Betar Gallant (bgallant@mit.edu), David Kwabi (dkwabi@umich.edu), & Mohammad Rahimi (mrahimi@uh.edu) Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is essential if global warming mitigation scenarios are to be met, with potential roles for utilization (CCU) in the shorter term to incentivize adoption of…
“When I envision the future, I still see CO2-made materials being a big part of everyday life. It’s going to be a huge infrastructure change to use CO2 instead of merely throwing it away.“ In celebration of women’s history month in March, this issue features Dr. Etosha Cave, Co-Founder and CSO of Twelve and history-making woman. Dr….
The Global CO2 Initiative is proud to announce that their partners at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning have been awarded a catalyst grant. These catalyst grants, from the Graham Sustainability Institute, fund projects designed to advance potential infrastructure solutions across energy, transportation, and the built environment. The projects will…
“If we do not slow the changes, society will become increasingly maladapted to local climate, leading to local catastrophes from which we just cannot recover.” This issue features Dr. Gerald Stokes, Visiting Professor Department of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University, Global CO2 Initiative Advisory Board Member.Associated with Stony Brook University since 2014, Dr. Stokes most recently was the Chair of Technology…
