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SUMMARY:Can enzymes help address the climate crisis? - Sam Cobb
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CONTACT:Dr Tamsin Samuels
DESCRIPTION:Humanity is facing a climate crisis\, with our fossil fuel con
 sumption driving an unsustainable increase in global temperatures. While e
 lectrification can replace many applications of fossil fuels\, the chemica
 ls industry requires carbon neutral or even negative feedstocks\, and some
  transport methods such as air travel mean the energy density of a chemica
 l fuel is still required. In the last 30 years electrochemical CO2 reducti
 on has emerged as an approach to make fuels and chemicals\, allowing the p
 otential to remove CO2 from the atmosphere or prevent its release at sourc
 e. Nature however beat humanity by millenia\, using the calvin cycle to tu
 rn CO2 into biomass. This talk will discuss what we can learn from nature 
 to improve our ability to convert CO2 into valuable fuels and chemicals\, 
 and maybe one day\, reach the ultimate goal of negative carbon emission ch
 emicals using direct air capture.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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