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Mission Statement
This initiative is a public service to explore and educate about the exciting dimensions of carbon dioxide sequestration opportunities in the State of Florida. Sizable portions of northern regions of our State have geological formations which are ideal for carbon sequestration. Florida can, and should, be a national and international leader in this technology. Our goal is to promote and advance economic opportunities for the development of the carbon capture industry in the Sunshine State using innovative thinking and practices such as direct air capture, agricultural techniques, industrial production technologies and other emerging strategies. The purpose: Start taking this damaging and heat inducing greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere from sites within Florida.
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Explaining Carbon Dioxide
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This illustration shows two oxygen molecules and one carbon molecule which are fused together. According to Wikipedia, C02 is a chemical compound gas which absorbs infrared radiation. The compound is transparent to visible light. Known as a "greenhouse gas," which is a major cause of global warming, C02 has no color. Britannica.com states, C02 is "formed in the combustion of carbon containing materials, in fermentation, and in respiration of animals and employed by plants in the photosynthesis of carbohydrates."
Energy from the Sun, which reaches our planet, is captured by this molecular compound. The more carbon dioxide which is placed into in our thin atmosphere by natural and human activities, the more radiant energy is captured, thus contributing to the "greenhouse effect." The result: An increasingly heated Earth, with all of its negative consequences for life.
The good news: CO2 can be captured and contained by various methods, including Direct Air Capture (DAC).
The potential for carbon dioxide (C02) capture technologies is a multi-dimensional.
Direct Air Capture (DAC) involves large fans that capture C02 from ambient air to begin the conversion of the greenhouse gas into rock stored miles beneath Earth's surface.
Industrial and Manufacturing Sequestration can be accomplished at venues such as concrete processing facilities and steel producing plants. Smokestacks can also be joined in the fight to contain carbon dioxide.
Farming practices employing minimal cultivation of land, planting cover crops to capture C02 and containing emissions from cattle are gaining wide-spread use
Nature's answer to C02 sequestration is in plain view with forests and ocean waters which absorb the chemical compound which is made up of molecules. However, there are problems with relying solely on both, such as wildfires which burn trees and release stored C02, and sea level rise, which is caused, in part, by heating oceans.
Inventors and scientists are exploring ways to capture C02 from vehicle tail pipes and other transportation venues such as harvested carbon dioxide from moving railcars.
There's more, including one day large buildings will be equipped with sequestration capabilities. Already, shipping containers are being used to experiment with carbon capture.
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