Recycling Of Carbon Dioxide From Air Is Imminent

Posted: 9/13/2015

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Just read Feature: Conjuring chemical cornucopias out of thin air. This is not the first time I read about research aiming at removing CO2 out of the air and transforming it into useful molecules or precursors etc.

This challenge for human ingenuity is about to be solved as will be the production of carbon based fuels making the extraction of fossil fuels superfluous in the near future.

Salient Quotes

1. “Last month, for example, Stuart Licht, a chemist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and colleagues reported in Nano Letters that they had developed a version of their solar reactor technology (see main story) that can take CO2 out of the air and convert it into solid carbon nanofibers.”
2. “A small New Jersey–based company called Liquid Light is working to commercialize technology for converting CO2 into ethylene glycol, a commodity chemical with a $27 billion annual market.”
3. “Another company, Skyonic, recently opened a demonstration plant in Texas that turns CO2 into baking soda, hydrochloric acid, and bleach.”