DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 3 -- North Carolina State University issued the following press release:
Tucked away off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh, North Carolina, researchers are trapping greenhouse gas and turning it into a product with a ready market. It's the location of NC State University's Compost Facility and Research Cooperative, where Pablo Ortiz Paciello, a graduate student in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering's Biocarbon Utilization and Sequestration (BUS) Lab, is demonstrating a patent-pending technology to capture carbon emissions directly at the compost pile.
The facility is ripe with possibilities - it's where the campus's organic waste is carefully composted with product quality in mind, processing up to 1,...