http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/4645 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/engineered-weathering-process-might-mitigate-climate-change <!--paging_filter--><p>Researchers at Harvard University and Penn State University have invented a technology, inspired by nature, to reduce the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human emissions.<br /><br />By electrochemically removing hydrochloric acid from the ocean and then neutralizing the acid by reaction with silicate (volcanic) rocks, the researchers say they can accelerate natural chemical weathering, permanently transferring CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean. Unlike other ocean sequestration processes, the new technology does not further acidify the ocean and may be beneficial to coral reefs.<br /><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/engineered-weathering-process-might-mitigate-climate-change">read more</a></p> Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:34:16 -0500 404132862 7687 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu