# @arizonastateuniversity on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CAeTpMynjUw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/3614588-arizonastateuniversity-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5f3b6b76e0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-05-22T02:34:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Arizona State University (@arizonastateuniversity) — https://gondola.cc/arizonastateuniversity

## Caption

@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.⁣
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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. ⁣
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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.”⁣
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Check out our "ASU Solutions" highlight for more on this technological breakthrough! ⁣
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#popsci #cleanenergy #science #sustainability #environment #sustainableliving  #asuengineering #arizonastateuniversity #asuresearch #forksup #sundevils

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sustainability, sundevils, arizonastateuniversity, science, cleanenergy, asu, forksup, sustainableliving, environment, asuresearch, popsci, asuengineering

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