Carbon dioxide scrubbers have been around since the 1800s, when commercial divers used them to extend their oxygen supply underwater. The technology got another boost when humans launched ...

The carbon dioxide scrubber not only advances the life support capabilities for the orbiting laboratory's crew, but may possibly benefit future astronauts on the moon and Mars as well. California ...

The modern world's release of carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels is causing the planet's climate to warm. Carbon dioxide acts like a blanket in the atmosphere, keeping the heat in.

Inside the command module, the carbon dioxide scrubber (or lithium hydroxide canister, as it was technically known) was cube-shaped. In the lunar module, which on Apollo 13 served as the crew's ...

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“We were scrubbing the CO2 out of the air entirely ... can absorb up to 44 pounds of carbon dioxide in one year—the same as a large tree. “There’s nothing like it out there in terms ...

have developed commercial technologies to design space bioprocessing systems that supply a liquid amine carbon dioxide scrubber with recombinant active carbonic anhydrase. The design workflows ...

Carbon capture works by sending the exhaust from natural gas power facilities to a carbon dioxide scrubber adjacent to the plant, where a chemical reaction absorbs the carbon dioxide before the ...

Among the businesses in their portfolio, four stood out as having a particularly audacious goal: They were working to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, for a profit. As countries around ...