Climate change 1: Fixing carbon - The natural way

World leaders and industry are making significant efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) method includes CO₂ to be captured directly from single large sources of greenhouses gases like power plants and stored underground. The University of Canterbury in New Zealand reveals that by applying microwaves to organic matter, the carbon can be efficiently fixed as charcoal and then buried underground. A form of radio waves is used which passes through the organic matter, exciting vibrational energy levels, and bending its molecular bonds simultaneously. It also introduces an efficient method of converting organic to charcoal carbon in a stable form. Charcoal can provide an effective method of extracting the 200b t burden of carbon already present in the atmosphere.