carbon capture

noun

plural carbon captures

: any of various methods of removing carbon dioxide (as from industrial emissions) to reduce its presence in the atmosphere

Carbon capture can be applied to large-scale emissions processes, including coal and gas-fired power generation …—

Global CCS Institute

Direct ocean carbon capture operations look a bit like desalination or wastewater treatment plants, though something quite different is going on inside their systems of filters, tubes, pumps and tanks.—

Brooke Staggs

Aramco has developed an innovative mobile carbon capture system that sharply reduces CO₂ emissions from a heavy-duty truck.—

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative

also : such a method combined with storing the carbon dioxide to keep it from entering the atmosphere : carbon capture and storage

Those bent on bringing down the fossil-fuel industry are also less than thrilled with the … push for technologies such as carbon capture, which removes and stores carbon emissions … —

Valerie Richardson

: the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by living vegetation : carbon sequestration

Plants perform carbon capture every day through photosynthesis, and they actually do so quite well.—

Patrick Biller

Trees are nature's best carbon capture technology and have been working to clean the air since the first leafy frond appeared on Earth …—

Georgette Kilgore

Examples of carbon capture in a Sentence

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If the goal of hydrogen subsidizes it to drive decarbonization, relying on fossil fuels with carbon capture is a counterproductive strategy that further entrenches dependence on polluting industries. —

Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 While these carbon capture and storage technologies are in their infancy and have yet to significantly contribute to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, billions of dollars are being spent on these efforts. —

Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025 And yet some of the same countries ravaged by the recent land rush plan to dedicate huge swaths of their territory to carbon capture, the study points out. —

Mark Gongloff, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024 The oil major estimates decarbonizing AI data centers could represent up to 20% of its total addressable market for carbon capture and storage by 2050. —

Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for carbon capture

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of carbon capture was in 1971

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“Carbon capture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20capture. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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