Recycling Carbon Dioxide: Saving Us or Digging us an Early Grave?

You know the Earth only has so much oil and we're using it like its water in a glass cup. At least with water you can replenish the glass after you empty it, with the Earth's oil what we get is it, no more. Well, if there is a way to recycle fuel wouldn't you do it? I know I would, and with help of companies like Carbon Sciences we can. Carbon Sciences is rethinking recycling completely. For them recycling isn't limited to paper and plastic, they are coming up with ways to recycle Carbon Dioxide. They do this using a biocatalytic process, which basically means that they take to CO2 and separate it into three parts; methane, ethane, and propane. These divisions of CO2 are used to create finer, higher grade fuels, for example jet fuel. "We are very excited by what we've seen in the lab. We've had some promising results," (Derek McLeish president and CEO of Carbon Sciences) There is an excact science to the way that the carbon dioxide separation is recycled. Okay bear with me here. After the seperation, the CO2 is moved to a Biocatalytic Reactor Matrix. This breaks down the CO2 into hydrocarbons (andy organic compound containing only hydrogen and carbon). These are then filtered and the gasses are extracted through condensers. Next, they are ready for conversion to higher grade fuel. Other scientists, such as Michael North, are turning CO2 into cyclic carvonates for industrial use. "The grand vision here is to take waste, build it into a portavke fuel and make it useful." (Derek McLeish) McLeish recently presented these scientific discoveries at a climate conference at Cambridge University, these ideas were excepted with open arms. This project will start in 2009 if all goes well. "Although some climate crisis might scoff at the idea of recycling CO2 arguing that we should be emitting less rather than recycling a pollutant, reusing it may well prove effective in kick starting a new carbon market, as well as helping clean up our increasingly polluted planet." (Matthew Knight, the author of Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel) I agree that we need to recycle the CO2 so we can keep driving and using fuel powered transpertation without drilling and drilling, for oil that we could already have if we were recycling CO2.



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