A recently analysis has revealed new materials that could help electricity producers slash carbon capture costs by up to 30 percent.

The research comes from Rice University, the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) who found that commonly used industrial minerals called zeolites could significantly improve the energy efficiency of carbon capture technology.

The researchers have used computers to calculate millions of atomic formulations for zeolites since 2007, continually adding information to the database which now contains about 4 million zeolite structures.

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