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Could This Invention Finally Clean up Cargo Fleets?

Saul Zimet

created: June 26, 2025, 3:49 p.m. | updated: June 27, 2025, 6:46 p.m.

“An industrial park alongside the River Lea in the London suburb of Chingford might not be the most obvious place for a quiet revolution to be taking place. But there, a team of entrepreneurs is tinkering with a modest looking steel container that could hold a solution to one of the world’s dirtiest industries. At one end, a diesel generator pipes fumes through the lime, which soaks up the carbon, triggering a chemical reaction that transforms it into limestone. With this invention, Seabound, the company behind it, hopes to capture large amounts of carbon directly from the decks of cargo ships..a Seabound unit can capture 78% of all the carbon from the exhaust that is pumped through it, and 90% of the sulphur, a toxic air pollutant. The latest prototype is being built to the dimensions of a standard 20ft (5.9 metre) shipping container, so that it can seamlessly slot in with cargoes on deck.”From The Guardian.

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