GCI is excited to announce the launch of our Student Team CCU Products Summer Internship Project! Students from several schools are working with GCI this summer to investigate what could be done with a million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions from the St Mary’s cement kiln in Charlevoix, Michigan. Students will have the benefit…
Science can now pull carbon out of the air. For that to make a difference, though, businesses need to find profitable places to put it. Global CO2 Initiative Director, Volker Sick, quoted in the New York Times.
Global CO2 Initiative is excited to share the successful launch of the first-ever DACC-A-THON student competition: A hackathon for direct air carbon capture. GCI has partnered with the OpenAir Collective to create a yearly student competition in which teams optimize a direct air carbon capture (DACC) device. Students will begin with a base DACC device…
Article by Volker Sick (Global CO2 Initiative) and Tim Skone (National Energy Technology Laboratory) Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), a set of tools that can help address excess CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and which can help mitigate climate change effects, is rapidly receiving increasing attention worldwide as a valuable commercial opportunity. Promoting research,…
Tom Raftery recently interviewed Professor Volker Sick for his podcast “Climate 21.” The Climate 21 podcast is a weekly podcast that will showcase best practices and thought leadership in greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Volker Sick on using concrete as a carbon sink “… it is a material that is designed to really hold enormous amounts…
This October the Board of Regents announced their selection of the 2019 Distinguished University Professorships where five faculty members from across the university were selected. Global CO2 Initiative (GCI) faculty affiliate, Nicholas Kotov was selected as one of the five. Kotov is the Irving Langmuir Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering. He also…
