Hello👋🏼, Thank you so much for taking the time to read my newsletter📰! last month I turned 15, completed my 2nd carbon capture project, and more…
TKS Showcase
Over the last 10 months as you may already know I’ve been part of a life-changing program called The Knowledge Society. learned so much about emerging technologies like carbon capture. And I also gained so many super useful life skills such as being able to manage my time and better approach cold outreaches.
To celebrate our year with the TKS Ottawa community. We had a showcase where some of us presented what astonishing projects we worked on, some also had braindpods to talk about various topics like the ethics of certain technologies.
I planned to present by carbon capture project. But unfortunately, I caught a cold and lost my voice. It was still an amazing event to see what others had done!
I was late and didn’t get into the group photo. So let’s play Where’s Waldo. Try and spot me
Carbon Capture Project(s)🏭
If you remember last month I started making my own Direct Air Capture Plant. I set three goals for myself at the start of the project:
Efficient Potassium Hydroxide usage
Low total cost
Gain a better understanding of Direct Air Capture
1st goal - Unsuccessful
To capture the CO2 I used potassium hydroxide (KOH). I sprayed it from a bottle in the 3D printed fan duct. Quite a bit of the KOH was purposed away from the CO2 and not fully used. This could possibly be improved by using a mist nozzle on a hose.
2nd goal - Partially successful
The “0-100 time” of carbon capture is how much CO2 can be captured per dollar. Although a large amount of the cost was wasted on the KOH, 3D printing the parts reduced a lot of the cost.
3rd goal - Successful
I definitely aced this goal. I am by no means an expert on Direct Air Capture (DAC) but I was able to grasp the fundamentals of the DAC process and how it can be used.
If you’d like to learn more, please check out my article!
At summer barbeque parties, charcoal grills emit around 5kg of CO2 per hour. That may not seem like a lot, but that is the equivalent of a car running for approximately 42km.
To tackle this problem, my next carbon capture project will be to eliminate the CO2 emission of a barbeque.
Newsletter📰 plans
During this July and August, I’ll include it in to one big newsletter. This is to ensure it stays to the same quality you expect of me each month! And of course, in September I will return back to my monthly schedule!
Summer plans:
Vacation to Florida
Finish carbon capture project
Start personal website
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Thank you for reading!