@popsci magazine has given one of its highest accolades to a device developed by #ASU researchers that can pull carbon gas from ambient air. The device, developed by @asuengineering Professor Klaus Lackner and his colleagues and commercialized by Silicon Kingdom Holdings in Dublin, is called MechanicalTree.⁣ ⁣ It is the world’s first passive direct air capture technology — it does not draw air through with energy-intensive devices but allows the wind to blow air through the system. ⁣ ⁣ According to the description by #popsci: “A forest of 1,200 mechanical ‘trees’... is poised to pull more carbon dioxide out of the air than any human-made endeavor before it. ... A cluster of 12 can suck a metric ton of the gas out of the atmosphere every day; a full lot, like the pilot one SKH is planning to install ... can remove up to 36,500 metric tons annually. That’s nearly 1,844 American households’ worth of emissions.”⁣ ⁣ Check out our "ASU Solutions" highlight for more on this technological brea...