received by the International Bureau on 29 March 2018 (29.03.2018)

What is claimed is: 1. A micro carbon capture system comprising:

a fossil fuel oxidation unit;

a carbon capture unit positioned to receive exhaust gas of the fossil fuel oxidation unit, the carbon capture unit including a physical adsorbent;

wherein the physical adsorbent is positioned to adsorb CO2 from the exhaust gas; and a water tank positioned to receive CO2 released from the physical adsorbent or a soil filtering unit positioned to receive CO2 released from the physical adsorbent.

2. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the water tank contains water, wherein CO2 is stored as carbonated water within the water tank; or

wherein the soil filtering unit includes at least one soil or compost filter, at least one alkylation filter, or combinations thereof positioned such that CO2 filters through the at least one soil or compost filter, CO2 filters through the at least one alkylation filter, or combinations thereof.

3. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises the water tank.

4. The micro carbon capture system of claim 3, further comprising a tank cooler thermally coupled to the water tank and configured to cool the water within the water tank.

5. The micro carbon capture system of claim 3, further comprising a compressor and a carbon diffuser, wherein the compressor is in fluid communication between the carbon capture unit and the water tank, and wherein the carbon diffuser is positioned to disperse, atomize, or combinations thereof the released CO2 into the water within the water tank.

6. The micro carbon capture system of claim 5, wherein the compressor is driven by the fossil fuel oxidation unit, or is powered by an external power source.

7. The micro carbon capture system of claim 5, wherein the carbon diffuser is a microporous diffuser, a reactor diffuser, or a bell cover diffuser.

8. The micro carbon capture system of claim 3, further comprising an irrigation system in fluid communication with the water tank, the irrigation system positioned to receive the carbonated water from the water tank and deliver the carbonated water to vegetation.

9. The micro carbon capture system of claim 81, wherein the cycling mechanism includes a rotor operatively coupled to a motor, wherein the physical adsorbent is positioned on the rotor, and wherein the motor is configured to rotate the rotor to move the physical adsorbent between the first position and the second position.

10. The micro carbon capture system of claim 9, wherein the motor is driven directly from the fossil fuel oxidation unit, or is powered by an external power source.

11. The micro carbon capture system of claim 9, wherein the carbon capture unit includes a housing, the housing including an adsorbing chamber positioned to receive the exhaust and a releasing chamber positioned to receive the released CO2.

12. The micro carbon capture system of claim 11, wherein the housing is divided into two sections, including the adsorbing chamber and the releasing chamber, by a barrier.

13. The micro carbon capture system of claim 11, wherein the adsorbing chamber is maintained within a temperature range suitable for adsorption of CO2 onto the physical adsorbent, and wherein the releasing chamber is maintained within a temperature range suitable for deadsorption of CO2 from the physical adsorbent, wherein the temperature within the releasing chamber is higher than the temperature within the adsorbing chamber.

14. The micro carbon capture system of claim 13, further comprising a heater, the heater thermally coupled with the releasing chamber.

15. The micro carbon capture system of claim 14, wherein the heater is powered directly from the fossil fuel oxidation unit via receipt of waste heat therefrom, or is powered by an external power source.

16. The micro carbon capture system of claim 13, wherein the adsorbing chamber is maintained at a temperature of equal to or less than 200°C equal to or greater than 5°C, and wherein the releasing chamber is maintained at a temperature that is equal to or greater than 5°C, higher than the temperature within the adsorbing chamber.

17. The micro carbon capture system of claim 9, wherein the rotor includes wheels or discs carrying the physical adsorbent.

18. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the physical adsorbent is a molecular sieve.

19. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the physical adsorbent includes an organic-inorganic hybrid or metal-organic framework.

20. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the physical adsorbent is a metal oxide.

21. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the physical adsorbent includes zeolite, calcium oxide, silicate, activated carbon, amine-modified activated carbon, me soporous silicas, or hydrotalcite.

22. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the physical adsorbent adsorbs CO2 from the exhaust via van der Waals forces, forming an adsorbent-CCh complex and forming scrubbed air clean having an eliminated or reduced CO2 relative to the CO2 content of the exhaust.

23. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the system includes the soil filtering unit, the soil filtering unit adapted to repurpose, sequester, or combinations thereof the CO2 as biomass or solid carbonate.

24. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, wherein the soil filtering unit includes a series of vertical drawers with mesh or semi permeable bottoms and separators configured to allow passage of CO2 through the drawers while containing particulate contents of the drawers.

25. The micro carbon capture system of claim 24, wherein the soil filtering unit is configured to allow high content CO2 influent to flow sequentially up through the drawers to an exhaust port.

26. The micro carbon capture system of claim 25, wherein the high content CO2 influent contains H2S, SO2, N¾, NO_x, or combinations thereof.

27. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, wherein the soil or compost filters contain plants.

28. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, wherein, within the soil filtering unit, sequestration of CO2 by soil particulates, catalyst activity on CO2 by micro organisms, and plant respiration of CO2 reforms combustion products as biomass.

29. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, wherein a portion of the CO2 is captured as soil organic carbon (SOC) in plants, microbes, fungus, or combinations thereof within the soil filtering unit.

30. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, wherein the soil filtering unit includes an automated watering and monitoring system.

31. The micro carbon capture system of claim 30, wherein the automated watering and monitoring system includes a control unit, an external water source, and one or more sensors.

32. The micro carbon capture system of claim 31, wherein the control unit is configured to receive data signals from the one or more sensors and control release of water from the external water source into the soil filtering unit based upon the data signals.

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33. The micro carbon capture system of claim 31, wherein the external water source includes a pump and sprinkler jets.

34. The micro carbon capture system of claim 33, wherein the one or more sensors include at least one humidity sensor, and wherein the control unit is a PLC that is programmed with logic instructions to control the pump to initiate watering within the soil filtering unit when the humidity sensors detect a humidity that is below a preset limit.

35. The micro carbon capture system of claim 31, wherein the automated watering and monitoring system includes CO2 influent regulator pump, one or more CO2 sensors, and wherein the control unit is a PLC programmed with logic instructions to control the CO2 influent regulator pump to initiate and/or cease input of CO2 into the soil filtering unit based upon CO2 measurements taken by the CO2 sensors.

36. The micro carbon capture system of claim 31, wherein the one or more sensors include pH sensors.

37. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, further comprising an activated carbon filter positioned at an exhaust outlet of the soil filtering unit, a drip pan positioned to collect soil drainage within the soil filtering unit, exhaust vents positioned at a top of the soil filtering unit, or combinations thereof.

38. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, wherein the soil filtering includes at least one alkylation filter positioned such that CO2 filters through the at least one alkylation filter, wherein the alkylation filters contain alkylating agents.

39. The micro carbon capture system of claim 23, further comprising a bioreactor in fluid communication with a water supply, wherein the bioreactor receives biomass produced in the soil filtering unit, the bioreactor containing anaerobic bacteria, protozoa, or combinations thereof that decompose the biomass in the presence of water from the water supply in a two- step process involving biohydrogen generation and biomethanation.

40. The micro carbon capture system of claim 39, wherein the bioreactor in fluid communication with a sewage source.

41. The micro carbon capture system of claim 39, wherein organic matter from the soil filtering unit, optionally mixed with sewage, is formed into methane, wherein the bioreactor is in fluid communication with the fossil fuel oxidization unit for providing the methane thereto as fuel.

42. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, further comprising a pre-cooler in fluid communication between the fossil fuel oxidation unit and the carbon capture unit, the pre-

30 cooler positioned and configured to cool exhaust from the fossil fuel oxidation unit prior to the exhaust entering the carbon capture unit.

43. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the fossil fuel oxidation unit is CHP/CCHP.

44. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the fossil fuel oxidation unit is an internal combustion engine, a water heater, or a clothing dryer.

45. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, further comprising an automated control system including a master controller in electrical, operative, and/or data communication with: air flow detectors positioned at inputs and outputs of the carbon capture unit; a C(¼ sensor positioned at an outlet of the carbon capture unit; temperature sensors positioned within the carbon capture unit; inlet and exhaust fans of the carbon capture unit; a rotor motor of the cycling mechanism of the carbon capture unit; a throttle valve of a heater of the carbon capture unit; or combinations thereof.

46. The micro carbon capture system of claim 3, wherein air is used as a carrier or purge gas source for the carbon capture unit, or wherein captured CO2 stored in the water tank is recycled into the carbon capture unit as the carrier or purge gas.

47. The micro carbon capture system of claim 46, wherein the captured CO2 stored in the water tank is recycled via return through a compressor and heat exchanger into a releasing chamber of the carbon capture unit.

48. The micro carbon capture system of claim 47, further comprising a regulator configured to maintain effluent output of the releasing chamber at a pressure level sufficient to maintain flow rates for a given temperature and compressor output optimized for regeneration of the physical adsorbent, wherein CO2 levels above the pressure level is released as a high CO2 content effluent for input into the water tank.

49. A micro carbon capture system comprising:

a fossil fuel oxidation unit;

a carbon capture unit positioned to receive exhaust gas of the fossil fuel oxidation unit, the carbon capture unit including a regeneratable physical adsorbent and a cycling mechanism configured to cycle the regeneratable physical adsorbent between a first position and a second position;

wherein, in the first position, the physical adsorbent is positioned to adsorb CO2 from the exhaust gas and, in the second position, the physical adsorbent is positioned to release the C0₂; and

31 wherein the cycling mechanism comprises a rotor driven by a motor for cycling the physical adsorbent between an CO2 absorbing chamber and a CO2 releasing chamber of the carbon capture unit, wherein rotor timing is synchronized with exhaust load and CO2 content, such that a majority of trapped CO2 is released upon a single revolution with the physical adsorbent regenerated to accept a new CO2 load upon reentering into the adsorbing chamber.

50. The micro carbon capture system of claim 81, wherein, in said carbon capture unit, regeneration of the physical adsorbent is achieved via: temperature cycling using a temperature sensitive physical adsorbent; pressure cycling using a pressure sensitive physical adsorbent; or current cycling using an electrical charge sensitive physical adsorbent.

51. The micro carbon capture system of claim 50, wherein:

a heat source is provided by a heat exchanger utilizing engine waste heat, either directly via conduction through unit hardware or indirectly via a transfer medium such as refrigerant, to provide the temperature cycling; or wherein the heat source is provided by an electrical heater powered by either a CHP/CCHP generator or an external power source; or a pressure source is provided by a compressor powered either mechanically by a CHP/CCHP crankshaft or electrically by a CHP/CCHP generator or by an external power supply to provide the pressure cycling; or

a current source is provided by either a generator of a CHP/CCHP system or an external power supply to provide the current cycling.

52. A carbon capture system comprising:

a fossil fuel oxidation unit, a carbon capture unit, and a storage unit in which carbon is stored as a biomass, wherein said storage unit includes a soil filtering unit. 53. A carbon capture apparatus comprising a carbon capture component for sequestering carbon from exhaust gases, wherein the carbon is sequestered within a water tank.

54. The apparatus of claim 53, further comprising a power generating system including an exhaust, wherein said carbon capture unit is configured to capture exhaust gases from said exhaust.

55. A method of capturing carbon from a fossil fuel exhaust gases, said method comprising sequestering carbon from fossil fuel exhaust gases, wherein the carbon is sequester within water.

56. The method of claim 55, further comprising cycling through a regenerating physical adsorbent to capture CO2 from exhaust gas.

57. The method of claim 56, wherein said cycling includes releasing CO2 to a

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58. The method of claim 57, wherein said temporary storage unit includes a water storage tank, said method further comprising using a CO2 diffuser to dissociate CO2 within said water storage tank.

59. A method of operating any one of the systems or apparatus of claims 1-54. 60. A method of capturing carbon, the method comprising;

directing exhaust from a fossil fuel oxidation unit into a carbon capture unit;

adsorbing CO2 from with the exhaust onto a physical adsorbent within the carbon capture unit;

deadsorbing the CO2 from the physical adsorbent within the carbon capture unit; and releasing the deadsorbed CO2 from the carbon capture unit into water or into a soil filtering unit.

61. The method of claim 60, wherein the deadsorbed CO2 is released into water within a water tank, forming carbonated water.

62. The method of claim 61, further comprising irrigating vegetation with the carbonated water.

63. The method of claim 61 , wherein a compressor directs the deadsorbed CO2 into the water tank, and wherein a carbon diffuser disperses, atomizes, or combinations thereof the deadsorbed CO2 within the water, forming the carbonated water.

64. The method of claim 60, wherein deadsorbing the CO2 from the physical adsorbent includes heating the physical adsorbent, pressurizing the physical adsorbent, or applying an electrical current to the physical adsorbent.

65. The method of claim 60, wherein the carbon capture unit includes an absorbing chamber and a releasing chamber, wherein the absorbing and releasing chambers are thermally insulated from one another, wherein the exhaust is directed into the absorbing chamber, and wherein the CO2 is deadsorbed within the releasing chamber.

66. The method of claim 65, wherein the releasing chamber is maintained at a temperature that is higher than the temperature within the absorbing chamber.

67. The method of claim 65, wherein the physical adsorbent is cycled through the absorbing and releasing chambers.

68. The method of claim 67, wherein cycling the physical adsorbent includes rotating the physical adsorbent on a rotor.

69. The method of claim 60, further comprising cooling the exhaust prior to

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70. The method of claim 65, further comprising recycling CO₂ released from the carbon capture unit back into the carbon capture unit.

71. The method of claim 60, wherein the deadsorbed CO2 is released into the soil filtering unit, wherein the soil filtering unit repurposes, sequesters, or combinations thereof the CO2 as biomass or solid carbonate.

72. The method of claim 71, further comprising filtering the deadsorbed CO2 through at least one soil or compost filter, at least one alkylation filter, or combinations thereof positioned within the soil filtering unit.

73. The method of claim 71, wherein the soil or compost filters contain plants. 74. The method of claim 73, wherein, within the soil filtering unit, sequestration of CO2 by soil particulates, catalyst activity on CO2 by micro organisms, plant respiration of CO2, or combinations thereof reforms combustion products as biomass.

75. The method of claim 74, wherein a portion of the CO2 is captured as soil organic carbon (SOC) in plants, microbes, fungus, or combinations thereof within the soil filtering unit.

76. The method of claim 71, further comprising directing biomass from the soil filtering unit to a bioreactor, directing water into the bioreactor, and decomposing the biomass within the bioreactor.

77. The method of claim 76, wherein anaerobic bacteria, protozoa, or combinations thereof decompose the biomass in the presence of the water from the water supply in a two- step process including biohydrogen generation and biomethanation.

78. The method of claim 76, further comprising directing sewage into the bioreactor, wherein the sewage is decomposed.

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79. The method of claim 76, wherein decomposing of the biomass within the bioreactor forms methane.

80. The method of claim 79, further comprising directing the methane into the fossil fuel oxidization unit as fuel.

81. The system of claim 1, wherein the solid adsorbent is a regeneratable physical adsorbent, and wherein the carbon capture unit includes a cycling mechanism configured to cycle the regeneratable physical adsorbent between a first position and a second position; wherein, in the first position, the physical adsorbent is positioned to adsorb CO2 from the exhaust gas and, in the second position, the physical adsorbent is positioned to release the

82. The micro carbon capture system of claim 1, wherein the system includes the water tank and the soil filtering unit.

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