September 1, 2025 | Fuming Yang, Ph.D.
As data demands soar, next-generation energy strategies are more critical than ever. Metasorbex pioneers this future by converting captured CO₂ into methanol, offering data centers a clean, circular, and reliable energy source.
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August 25, 2025 | Fuming Yang, Ph.D., Edward Chan, Ph.D.
Data centers are essential to the digital economy but face rapidly rising energy demand from AI and hyperscale computing, challenging reliability, cost, and decarbonization efforts. Emerging solutions, including CCU technologies like MetaSorbex’s modular onsite system, offer a complementary pathway by converting CO₂ into methanol for backup power or chemical feedstock, supporting low-carbon, resilient, and circular energy strategies.
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August 18, 2025 | Fuming Yang, Ph.D.
As data centers expand to power AI, cloud, and edge infrastructure, the need for scalable, low-carbon energy is urgent. Methanol from captured CO₂ provides an immediate solution as a complement to natural gas and holds the promise of becoming a primary fuel, driving deep decarbonization, circular carbon use, and creating value for both data centers and their stakeholders.
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August 11, 2025 | Fuming Yang, Ph.D.
Data centers are driving rapid growth in energy demand and carbon emissions, creating tension between utilities, citizens, and hyperscalers over costs. Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) offers a strategic solution by turning CO₂ emissions into valuable products, delivering both environmental and economic benefits for modular data center applications.
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August 4, 2025 | Fuming Yang, Ph.D., Edward Chan, Ph.D.
Amid political uncertainty and shifting climate policies, achieving Net-Zero remains a critical goal for limiting global temperature rise. Framing carbon management as a practical industrial strategy, rather than a purely aspirational climate pledge, highlights the role of technologies like CCS and DAC in delivering both near-term reductions and long-term carbon removal.
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January 25, 2024 | Edward Chan, Ph.D.
It is the process of filtering gaseous carbon dioxide from emissions and has the potential to turn waste into cash.
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January 30, 2024 | Edward Chan, Ph.D.
Carbon capture is the process of collecting atmospheric CO2. Sequestration binds CO2 gas into stable solids for no re-emission. It is waste management, not a circular economy.
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February 25, 2024 | Edward Chan, Ph.D.
Carbon capture utilization completes the circular carbon economy. It converts carbon waste into new feedstocks to create a low-carbon supply chain.
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May 25, 2023
The IEA’s April 2023 report, “Credible Pathways to 1.5 °C”, analyzes three scenarios: Net Zero 2050, national pledges, and current policies, showing differences in temperature rise and overshoot duration. Methane from agriculture and land use drives about 30 percent of peak warming (approximately 0.2 °C above NZE). Key mitigation tools, including renewables, fuel alternatives, efficiency, and carbon management (CCS, CCU, carbon removal), remain no-regret strategies across all scenarios.
April 28, 2023
This is for early-stage founders in climate tech (hard tech, fintech or marketplace). And it is just one man’s opinion who is on the ground in this space.
A PwC report (Figure 3, link below) shows that 81% of surveyed global investors, mostly institutional, accept no more than a 100-basis point reduction in returns on sustainability projects. While not early-stage VCs, their stance shapes expectations for exits. Since these investors will likely hold our customers’ equities, the value we deliver must be earnings accretive. Classic value creation 101.
April 23, 2023
The EPA is expected to issue rulings proposal on GHG reduction for coal-fired and natural gas electricity-generating-units by the first week of May, the Journal reported. This is likely to require carbon capture technology. See the GSA website for the exact language.
April 09, 2023
As compared to human physiology, a persistent 1.5 oC rise in core body temperature can cause health complications. In the context of climate change, it can impact human survival. See the blog here.
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