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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
Exciting new developments in material sciences creates opportunities for gaseous direct air capture. These could be used for local remediation of specific pollution sources or applied against global atmospheric problems. Attending to pollutants that exacerbate resource scarcity would mitigate environmental factors that drive migration and local extremism. Resource scarcity and severe weather patterns are creating global instabilities that seriously threaten international security, especially large-scale migration and violent extremism. Environmental, ecological, and severe weather disruptions are recognized as a multifaceted challenge to national security. Some models suggesting a modest adaptability range and a short but sufficient period of time in which to react and transition from traditional fuels may be inaccurate. More immediate, broadly employable and inexpensive measures to remove pollutants from the atmosphere would provide a much needed transition buffer. With severe weather characterized by +45 degree Celsius /+113 degree Fahrenheit heat waves, air conditioning and refrigeration are a growing necessity. Unfortunately, this contributes to the problem they are intended to alleviate. Air conditioners' ubiquity also means they could serve as an in-place decentralized infrastructure for direct air capture. Several companies have already commercialized modular direct air capture, thus proving the technology for removing specific molecules from the atmosphere—rather than at the source--exists. For air conditioners to contribute to direct air capture, a low cost filter that–ideally could be affixed to existing infrastructure-- is required.
Example Approaches:
Though the technology for gas molecule direct air capture exists, more must be done to lower costs and dramatically scale employment. Several approaches exist for further exploration.
Relevance to the Intelligence Community:
Severe weather and associated resource scarcity represents a significant instability threat that can breed conflict and violent extremism. It is critical to understand how severe weather issues impact certain regions, as water scarcity, food and energy shortages etc. can foster an unstable operating environment that becomes a catalyst for human migration and/or that violent extremist organizations look to exploit for their own gain. Efforts to find employable means to counter these negative trends are relevant to the Intelligence Community (IC) because they attend to upstream radicalization and radicalization factors and have the potential to mitigate future instability threats and diminish IC’s mission burden.
Key Words: Severe Weather, Gaseous Scrubbers, Material Sciences, CO2, Direct Air Capture, Air Conditioning, Air Conditioners, Crowd Oil, Radicalization
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