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Lecture
Kleinman Center Event
A Case for Carbon Dioxide Removal from Air
Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Speaker
Jennifer Wilcox
James H. Manning Chaired Professor of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Moderator
Mark Hughes
Founding Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Location
Kleinman Center Energy Forum
220 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Jennifer Wilcox reviews the promise and pitfalls of using technology to remove CO2 directly from the air.
Event Summary
As a global society, our fossil fuel use has resulted in atmospheric CO2 concentrations much greater than at any other time during the last 650,000 years. Until now, our best approach was simply to avoid such emissions. But because of our failure to act quickly and at large scale, we now must go beyond that strategy and remove CO2 directly from the air. Trees and oceans already do this, but these systems are overwhelmed. Manufactured or synthetic removal systems are designed to pull CO2 from the atmosphere at a much faster rate. This talk reviews both the promise and pitfalls of this approach.
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A Case for Carbon Dioxide Removal From Air
Jennifer Wilcox
speaker
Jennifer Wilcox
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Jennifer Wilcox is currently serving at the U.S. Department of Energy, on leave from the Kleinman Center. Her research expertise is in carbon capture and sequestration technologies, in order to minimize the negative impacts of fossil fuels.
moderator
Mark Alan Hughes
Faculty Co-Director
Mark Alan Hughes leads the Kleinman Center as faculty co-director and writes on topics ranging from deep decarbonization to the future of Philadelphia’s energy landscape. He is also a professor of practice at the Weitzman School.