Carbon capture and storage technology7/27/2023 ![]() Our vision at Research for Industry (RFI), is to bring together the world’s leading experts from our industry partners, academic collaborators, and internal research labs to accelerate the adoption of CCS through digitalization, cloud and AI technologies. However, to reach 1.5 degrees, the storage capacity of CCS projects needs to increase by a hundredfold. Current ongoing and planned projects (including Northern Lights) are projected to sequester a combined amount of approximately 40 mega tonnes of CO2 per year. One of the main challenges of CCS is being able to scale this technology to a level that is required to reach current climate goals. As a technology partner, Microsoft has joined the Northern Lights partnership, one of the flagship CCS projects and a collaboration between the Norwegian government and energy companies Equinor, Shell and Total. In accordance with Microsoft’s pledge of reaching carbon negativity by 2030 and along with several promising avenues such as Energy 2.0 and agricultural carbon sequestration, we are actively contributing research towards enabling CCS as a viable and cost-efficient technique for decarbonization. Several pilot projects such as Sleipner have demonstrated the feasibility of CCS and have shaped our understanding of the risks and mitigation techniques. The core idea of CCS is to capture CO2 at industrial plants or directly from the air (direct air capture, or short DAC), compress and then store it permanently several kilometers beneath the surface in CO2 storage sites. While decarbonization and adoption of fossil fuel alternatives are accelerating across many industries, researchers project that to reach carbon neutrality in the next 30 years, steps need to be taken to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere.Ĭarbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the most promising technologies that paves the way towards CO2 neutrality and has seen a huge growth over recent years, with many CCS facilities being in active development worldwide. The general scientific consensus is that to reach 1.5 degrees, carbon neutrality must already be reached by 2050 – a giant technological challenge. To reach the goal of limiting the global rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius we need to take major steps towards mitigating anthropogenic CO2 emissions. ![]() Global warming is one of the most important problems humanity needs to solve for.
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