The Story of CO2: Big Ideas for a Small Molecule,Geoffrey Ozin and Mireille Ghoussoub

-About this book

The climate crisis requires that we drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions across all sectors of society. The Story of CO₂ contributes to this vital conversation by highlighting the cutting-edge science and emerging technologies – a number of which are already commercially available – that can transform carbon dioxide into a myriad of products such as feedstock chemicals, polymers, pharmaceuticals, and fuels. This approach allows us to reconsider CO₂ as a resource, and to add « carbon capture and use » to our other tools in the fight against catastrophic climate change.

The Story of CO₂ explores all aspects of carbon dioxide, from the atomic to the universal perspective, and takes the reader on an epic journey into our physical world, starting from the moment of the Big Bang, all the way to the present world in which atmospheric CO₂ concentrations continue to grow. This story seeks to inspire readers with the latest carbon utilization technologies and explain how they fit within the broader context of carbon mitigation strategies in the shift towards a sustainable energy economy.

-Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1 The Good, the Bad, and the Oily
2 From Space to Earth and Back Again
3 Confronting Climate Change
4 Stubborn Emissions
5 Power to the CO2
6 It Is a CO2 World
7 Bringing It All Together
Appendix A: Companies Transforming CO2
Appendix B: Further Reading
References
Illustration and Text Credits
Index

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :6 novembre 2020

Éditeur : University of Toronto Press

N.de pages : 280 pages

ISBN-10 : 1487506368

ISBN-13 : 978-1487506360

Poids : 560 g

Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm

Langue :  Anglais