It’s a simple belief: strip CO2 from the air and utilize it to produce carbon-neutral fuel. But can it work on an industrial scale?It’s nothing much to recognize at,but the tangle of pipes, pumps, and tanks,reactors, chimneys and ducts on a messy industrial estate external the logging town of Squamish in western Canada could just provide the fix to stop the world tipping into runaway climate change and substitute dwindling supplies of conventional fuel.
It could also make Harvard superstar physicist David Keith, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and oil sands magnate Norman Murray Edwards more money than they could ever dream of.
Critics say these technologies are unfeasible. Not producing the emissions in the first place would be much cleverer Related: Australian firm unveils plan to convert carbon emissions into 'green' concrete Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com