Part 1 Asynchronous Online Discussion
Guest Lecture by Dr. Shigenori Fujikawa from the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy research, Kyushu University
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Thank you for your very attractive presentation. I learned about negative emission technology. I hope that this technology will develop and global warming will be suppressed.
Some of the new technologies related to CO2 were very new and interesting to me as I had never heard of them before.
My question is, how long will it take to realize a super-distributed autonomous system that can absorb CO2 and convert it into energy as needed, just like plants?
Thank you, Dr. Fujikawa, for the impressive presentation of your research on the CO2 permeable separation membrane. When mass production is available, will there be a plan to target select areas around the globe, perhaps those where CO2 emission is highest or most problematic?
Considering only national interests in solving environmental problems will only lead to continued conflict between developing and developed countries. I was excited to learn about the possibility of global initiatives by individuals and companies that do not think in terms of countries but in terms of the global unit.
A new technology of capturing CO2 in air by the membrane separation impressed me with a future possibility of sustainable energy production, consumption and recovery in a local community. A decentralized small-scale system of capturing CO2 not only reduces CO2 in air but also may change the concentration of population in big cities. It may solve the issues of depopulation and aging that a plenty of marginalized communities face in Japan. It makes such local communities sustainable while stopping global warming. I think to promote this technology needs a political decision of introducing a carbon tax and rule of planting trees. Those who emitted CO2 have to either pay for recovering charge or plat trees in their own communities. I hope the technology will work for creating a proper balance between environment, economy and society.
Thank you for very interesting talk. I have a question: Does your Moonshot program receive sufficient financial support from the government? As you mentioned the recent trend of huge investment by billionaires to the DAC technologies, I am wondering if such movement of investment by megacorporations become more popular, will development of green technologies become more moneymaking oriented ones?
I would like to know what the other participants think about this, too.
I have a related question to the above. There has been a lot of development into Micro-algae Bio-fuels especially as jet aviation fuel. Do you think that as bio jet fuels become more mainstream, this will in turn drive the adoption of decentralized DAC using membranes at a faster rate? I realize at this point that the membrane technology selective efficiency isn’t at the mass production stage as yet.