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

Recent Examples on the Web His vision is to use carbon capture tech as a means to get there instead of shutting down coal plants. —

Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024 Rather than acquiesce to phasing out oil and gas, fossil fuel companies have often proposed their own slate of half-measure solutions, like carbon capture and storage, while continuing to expand oil and gas production. —

Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024 The same could be said about carbon capture and storage as a solution to the climate crisis. —

Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024 Meanwhile, major business and energy groups worry a second Trump term could jeopardize funding for manufacturing of clean energy technologies and gut provisions like hydrogen and carbon capture tax credits. —

Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 27 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for carbon capture

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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 12 Sep. 2024.

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