Davide Molino
Study and development of engineered materials to harvest energy from co2 emissions.
Rel. Andrea Lamberti. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Nanotechnologies For Icts, 2020
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Abstract
Nowadays, Earth is undergoing effects of climate change due to the exponential increase of greenhouse gasses's emissions. The main component of greenhouse emissions is carbon dioxide (CO2), which is estimated responsible for about 60% of global warming generated by human activities, and its concentration is increased by 40% with respect to the concentration at the beginnings of industrial era. This increase is due to several factors such as the combustion of coal, oil and gas and the progressive deforestation: this last phenomenon generates a sort of bottleneck in the so called biogeochemical "carbon cycle". Deforestation causes the lack of one of the natural regulating sources of carbon dioxide concentration.
Scientists set an increase of 2°C (with respect to the pre-industrial global temperature) as the threshold beyond which there is a much higher risk that dangerous and possibly catastrophic changes in the global environment will occur
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