{"id":269775,"date":"2026-06-10T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:25:20","slug":"turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning emissions into opportunity: Mines startup advances carbon capture technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsln.com\/news\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/\">Turning emissions into opportunity: Mines startup advances carbon capture technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsln.com\/news\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/\">https:\/\/www.tsln.com\/news\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 18:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tsln.com\">www.tsln.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RAPID CITY, SD (June 9, 2026) \u2014\u00a0For decades, scientists, engineers and industry leaders have pursued the same elusive goal, finding a carbon capture solution that is both environmentally sustainable and economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>From sprawling pipelines and deep underground storage wells to slow-acting enzymes, promising approaches have emerged, but none have achieved the right balance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a multidisciplinary team at\u00a0South Dakota Mines, led by Tanvi Govil, Ph.D., assistant professor in the\u00a0Karen M. Swindler Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,\u00a0may have found a breakthrough in an unexpected place. Deep beneath the Black Hills, microbes thriving in the extreme environment of the\u00a0Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF)\u00a0have inspired a technology that could help industries reduce carbon emissions without sacrificing the energy resources the world still depends on, a true win-win for both the economy and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Govil and her team have developed technology that can convert fossil fuels into green energy \u2013 this is pretty eye-opening,\u201d said Merle Symes, Mines\u00a0Entrepreneur-in-Residence\u00a0and CEO of\u00a0Carbon EnZero, a company started by Govil to commercialize the technology. \u201cWe see this as the first win-win solution that should satisfy both sides of the aisle. It satisfies people who think fossil fuels are the way we should be going, and it satisfies the people who are concerned about climate change. I\u2019ve been involved in a number of startups, but I\u2019ve never been involved in one where all the moons are aligning like this one. Every factor is working toward this is the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research team uses microbes, or tiny bugs, collected in SURF and other areas around the country to specially engineer high-performance enzymes capable of operating in harsh industrial environments, including high heat, pressure, acidity and exposure to toxic metals. Using these advanced enzymes as powerful biocatalysts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsln.com\/news\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning emissions into opportunity: Mines startup advances carbon capture technology https:\/\/www.tsln.com\/news\/turning-emissions-into-opportunity-mines-startup-advances-carbon-capture-technology\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-10 18:58:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/swiftmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/mountain.swiftcom.com\/images\/sites\/13\/2023\/02\/17223834\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-269775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269779,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775\/revisions\/269779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}