This Crazy, Cheap Technology Can Turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

[rangerrebew]

This Crazy, Cheap Technology Can Turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

Scientists are working on a new method for creating carbon-neutral fuel that sounds like science fiction.
By Laura Yan   
Jun 10, 2018
 

It sounds a bit like an environmental dream: a factory that sucks carbon dioxide from the air itself (cheaply, too), and converts it into fuel that can be used for cars and planes. But it's an actual project developed by scientists from Harvard University and Carbon Engineering, a Bill Gates funded company. If the new process is successfully implemented at scale, it could mean a more “optimistic” future for climate change.

In 2011, experts estimated that it would cost at least $600 to remove a metric ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The new approach could remove the same amount for as little as $94. And it mostly relies on pre-existing processes and techniques, like what’s already being used cooling towers and paper mills.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a21251308/crazy-cheap-technology-turn-carbon-dioxide-into-fuel/

[Joe Wooten]

I bet it ends up needing a government subsidy to compete with oil. Also, it looks like a facility for this would be one bigass chemical plant. What are the waste products and how do they propose to handle them?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

We already hAve factories that suck CO2 out of the air and convert to energy.

They are called forests and photosynthesis has been used by them billions of years.

A whole lot cheaper to plant a treE than engage in another wacko scheme to take our money.

[Joe Wooten]

We already hAve factories that suck CO2 out of the air and convert to energy.

They are called forests and photosynthesis has been used by them billions of years.

A whole lot cheaper to plant a treE than engage in another wacko scheme to take our money.

Yeah, they leave out a LOT of those niggling little engineering details.......