The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE) is advancing carbon management technologies that can capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air in an outdoor operating environment.
What are “negative carbon emissions”?
How does “carbon farming” work?
What do we do with excess carbon?
We’re not just aiming to bring carbon dioxide emissions down, we’re aiming to have negative carbon emissions — capturing more than we produce using our artificial “trees” and reusing it.
Take a look inside the CNCE as Dr. Lackner explains how carbon air capture technology works.
Like throwing trash into the street, each year we pump tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Our Center is developing technology poised to collect and reuse our carbon while cleaning the air.
We also consider the economic, political, social and environmental ramifications that will arise with the availability of an affordable air capture technology.
It is our long-term goal to make the CNCE the intellectual leader in this new field of sustainable energy infrastructure design critical to achieving a carbon negative energy economy.


