Swedish medical technology firm Medclair has developed a system that could reduce the cost of carbon dioxide equivalent removal in medium-sized hospitals to around €10 per tonne – far cheaper than some alternative removal technologies that deal with CO2 itself.
The company’s technology decomposes nitrous oxide into nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrous oxide is widely used in anaesthesia, including during childbirth, but it is also a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential around 300 times greater than CO2.
“When we talk about nitrous oxide, we always compare it to CO2,” said Jonas Lundh, CEO of Medclair, in interview with gasworld. “One unit of nitrous oxide is 300 units of CO2 equivalent.”
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