High Hopes Labs an Israeli Tech start-up company has found a unique solution to the problem of carbon-capturing i.e. cleaning the atmosphere of carbon dioxide by using a balloon.

The company has devised a method to capture carbon in its solid form by sending balloons 15 kilometers (9 miles) above the surface of the earth to the edge of the stratosphere with a box that will serve as a carbon-capturing device.

Although carbon-capturing facilities exist, they use a tremendous amount of resources to capture and compress the carbon for recycling, which has proved to be counterproductive and expensive.

According to experts, freezing carbon is the most efficient way of extracting excessive carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but this phenomenon only happens at -80 degrees Celsius, which is not possible on the surface of our planet naturally. But Scientists at High Hopes Labs have found a distinctive solution to naturally achieve this phenomenon in the stratosphere.

The company has already tested its system on a small scale and is aiming to build larger balloons within two years that can be deployed to remove a tonne of carbon dioxide at a cost below $100 which is highly economical in comparison to the existing technology which costs approximately $1000 for the same.

This solution to the problem of excess carbon dioxide comes at a time when climate change due to global warming is the foremost crisis being faced by humanity. Carbon Sinks is one of the main Agendas of COP26 which was recently held in Glasgow. The world could take a page from this innovative solution.

 

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