How to Use carbon capture in a Sentence

carbon capture

noun
  • His vision is to use carbon capture tech as a means to get there instead of shutting down coal plants.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In other words, carbon capture is integral to the process.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
  • In other words, Team Allam aimed to do carbon capture for free.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
  • This leads to healthier dirt and better carbon capture.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • So how does carbon capture and storage, or CCS, work for a project like this?
    — Ramesh Agarwal, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The same could be said about carbon capture and storage as a solution to the climate crisis.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Some experts agree the economic promise of carbon capture isn’t yet proven.
    — Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
  • Malaysia passed a bill last year promoting the carbon capture industry.
    — ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • First, industrial carbon capture projects are far too small to matter.
    — Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • To pin our hopes on some far-off carbon capture technology is wishful thinking.
    — Tom Caffery, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The milestone marked a major step toward scaling carbon capture and storage.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • It can also be produced using natural gas with carbon capture.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Princeton’s labs didn’t have the technical expertise in carbon capture that the other two schools had.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • Still, the regulation is expected to lead to greater use of carbon capture equipment.
    — Chris Carlson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This is possible through a process called carbon capture and sequestration.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The center had much to show for its work on earth systems modeling and had made technical progress on carbon capture and storage.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • The oil companies had doubts that carbon capture and storage technology would work.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • People involved in carbon capture say that humanity needs it.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Still, no one has done carbon capture and sequestration successfully at scale yet.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But the researchers appeared to be stretching their own parameters to make carbon capture and storage fit.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • One big dispute is over how big a role this technology, known as carbon capture and storage, should play in the fight against global warming.
    — Nadja Popovich, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But since the law’s passage last year, announcements of carbon capture projects — including a large one in Wyoming — have spiked.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • This is one of the main reasons carbon capture technologies have not scaled widely, despite being available for decades.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But a colleague had heard Socolow give a presentation on carbon capture and was impressed.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • Efforts to build the world's largest carbon capture plant in Texas have a $1 billion price tag attached to them, for example.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The program would focus roughly one third on earth sciences research, one third on carbon capture and one third on policy efforts.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • So the plan also leaned heavily on carbon capture to remove pollution and make those approaches work.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • Large patches of phytoplankton — which, like algae, can bloom — already perform half of the carbon capture process.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
  • And yet some of the same countries ravaged by the recent land rush plan to dedicate huge swaths of their territory to carbon capture, the study points out.
    — Mark Gongloff, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024
  • But many environmental groups think carbon capture and storage is a false solution.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2025

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