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Sea Urchins Offer a Clue To New Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide
2013-02-05 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: British researchers have discovered that sea urchins use nickel particles on their exoskeletons to effectively capture CO2 and turn it into a solid form, an intriguing finding that could offer an inexpensive way to capture and store carbon from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Scientists from Newcastle University were studying how marine organisms absorb CO2 to make shells and skeletons when they discovered that sea urchin larvae have a high concentration of nickel on their exoskeletons, which helps...
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