Monday, 15 February 2021, 12:14 pm
A team of international researchers led by a University
of Canterbury (UC) Engineering academic, believe they have
discovered a potentially revolutionary key to reducing
climate change impacts.
Lead researcher UC Civil
Engineering Associate
Professor Allan Scott, and his team in the United
States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, have found a new
low-carbon method to produce the common mineral, magnesium
hydroxide or Mg(OH)2.
Associate Professor Scott
explains magnesium hydroxide has been widely recognised as
one of the most promising materials for ‘carbon
mineralization’ (where carbon dioxide or CO is
prevented from entering the atmosphere), but until now there
NZ scientists have figured out a method to capture vast quantities of manmade CO2. And the kicker? There's 871 billion tonnes of the material needed to pull it off in the hills near Nelson.