Tag: Klaus Lackner

Klaus Lackner Takes Step Toward Workable Carbon Capture Technology

by | 2.1.2013 at 12:47pm | 1 Comment
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Klaus Lackner’s approach to slowing global warming is to scrub carbon dioxide from the air—literally.

Artificial Trees: Giving Us Time to Act?

by | 10.18.2011 at 11:23am
Klaus Lackner in the laboratory with students

Soon after Klaus Lackner met Allen Wright at Biosphere 2 in Arizona, they began dreaming up a way to pull CO2 out of the air. After years of work, the two have come up with a working laboratory-scale prototype…

Klaus S. Lackner – Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy

by | 9.21.2009 at 9:05am | 3 Comments

To address the exponential rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations since the Industrial Revolution, Professor Klaus S. Lackner, director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute, is working on ambitious carbon capture and sequestration strategies.  “Our goal is to take a process that takes 100,000 years and compress it into 30 [...]