DF Cast: Recycling CO2 into Fuel
Big emitters of carbon dioxide are faced with a big problem. Industries and utilities will soon have to capture that CO2 and store it … somewhere. That’s where Carbon Sciences comes in. The California-based company has come up with a way that takes the captured greenhouse gas and turns it into gasoline and diesel … the exact same fuels that we put into our tanks today.
In this edition of the Domestic Fuel Cast, we talk to Carbon Sciences President and CEO Byron Elton, who explains how this process works. Basically, it’s the exact same process that changed carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons all those eons ago far beneath the surface of the Earth. But this is much more efficient and faster and could be the solution for those CO2 emitters looking for something to do with their newly sequestered product and a planet hungry for energy.
It’s really a fascinating process, and you can here more about it here: DFCast-12-04-09.mp3
6 Comments »
Tom Scofield
I have been watching Carbon Sciences for about 14 months. I would like to hear more about the partnerships that they are working on with potential customers. It appears that the process is scalable to commercial levels and needs to be introduced into a commercial operation. Scientific method is important but the time has come for the Carbon Science process to come into the market and get this side of the equation utilized.
Trav
I agree with above comment.. Lets start using this technology already!. Oh yea, big oil doesnt want to lose profits so they will impede this advancement forward as long as they can. The same reasone electric cars havent been made widely available in mass. oil companies have to much to lose. they want so bad to control the worlds energy usage that they are willing to bomb and destroy innocents across the world for their oil resources and call it a war on terror. its a sad world under the oil regimes. Nothing will change until oil has less value/demand in our energy consumption.
Darwin
Carbon Science promotes a SOLUTION, carbon sequstration is NOT a solution. Congress needs to stop supporting their moneybags and support REAL SOLUTIONS. For US the People, President Obama needs to ignore Congress and demand support for Solutions.
Thanks
Darwin
California is a big looser for not advancing this technology. They boast they support green technology. California is desporate for electricity, America has plenty of Coal, Carbon Sciences has the solution to Co2 and they can have cheap energy.
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William Arthur
This is it! This is the most compelling and absolutely necessary technology to come down the pike. If we successfully change what is essentially poison to a fuel we can use right now, then we save Mother Earth and we finally give America the energy dependence it so desperately needs. What’s holding this thing up? Isn’t anybody on the planet interested in something with such potential? Or is the whole idea simply not viable from a business point of view? When you talk about billions of tons of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere every year, you are talking about a destruction which is happening right now! What’s the problem here? Why can’t this rocket take off?
Retirefund
We think this technology is one of the best answers to the problem of global carbon emissions from coal fired plants, from industrial pollution or for any business which offshoots carbon into our atmosphere.
New Technology always take time to develop, however we are encouraged by Carbon Sciences already having built a working prototype capable of quickly turning the carbon from capture into fuel.
We also understand, from the company, that within 8 months, they will have completed their first bio catalytic nano reactor capable of producing fuel on a small, industrial scale.
http://retirefund.blogspot.com/2010/02/carbon-sciences-technology-carbon.html
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