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World Cement PodcastExploring CO2 storageThe World Cement Podcast welcomes Dr Katherine Romanak of the University of Texas at Austin for a deep dive into the topic of geological CO2 storage – the processes involved both above and below ground, the challenges and opportunities, and what (not) to worry about!Topics covered include:Dispelling misconceptions and exploring the importance of public buy-inThe chemical processes involved and what actually happens undergroundWhat are the risks?Risks vs rewardsAs always, make sure to rate, review and subscribe to the World Cement Podcast if you haven’t already done so!
2025-10-0821 min
Climate Bonds InitiativeClimate Bonds Cafe at COP: Communicating ScienceClimate scientists and advocates have to walk everyone
through complicated, nuances information, with some doubting the objective facts around it. Perhaps its inaccessibility to all, means at events like this
there’s a risk of the science being lost in all the talk, the politics and the controversy of an event like COP28.
We're joined by Katherine Romanak, a research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology to explain to us how to communicate the science at an event like COP.
2023-12-0512 min
Open to DebateIs Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?When it comes to carbon dioxide, last year was a record year. The world emitted more of the climate-warming gas in 2022 than in any year since scientists began recording levels in 1900. The culprit, says the International Energy Agency, is society’s voracious appetite for fossil fuels, and the need to burn them. So … what can be done to prevent dangerous levels of warming? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a technology in which CO2 is extracted and stored in underground facilities. In fact, as recently as February, Exxon Mobil announced that it will use Honeywell technology in T...
2023-05-0553 min
The Carbon Removal ShowS1 #9 | What's next for carbon removal... and how can I help?Now you've discovered what carbon removal is all about, what are you going to do next?
In this finale, we have brought together a mix of carbon removal-related inspiration:
An interactive game to help us all understand the road to gigaton-scale carbon removalA reflection on how COP26 left the carbon removal space (spoiler - we really do need it and we really do need it now)An array of stories from our guests of how they found their groove in the carbon removal spaceOur top tips for how you can continue your carbon removal journey, whatever...
2021-12-1541 min
The Carbon Removal ShowS1 #5 | DAC and storage: can we engineer our way out of this?Measurable, instant, continuous carbon capture and safe, reliable, permanent storage. Sound too good to be true?
Actually, this is exactly what engineered solutions like DAC (Direct Air Capture) and geological sequestration claim to bring to our carbon removal toolkit. The former promises technological innovation that does a tree's job better than a tree. The latter offers one of our surest bets that once we've got the CO2 down, we can keep it down, out of the atmosphere for as good as forever.
Naturally, however, these unnatural solutions have catches, complications... even controversies. Are we engineering...
2021-11-1046 min
American Shoreline Podcast NetworkCarbon Sequestration Series Part II: Discussing Risks with Dr. Katherine RomanakThis week, Peter and Tyler are back at the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology to talk carbon sequestration. They welcome Dr. Katherine Romanak, the lead risk analyst on UT's sequestration research program. A former volcanologist, Dr. Romanak now devotes her time to determining how to safely put atmospheric CO2 into "secure geologic storage," an initiative many believe is essential to responding to climate change.
2019-04-221h 10