VULCANOL - A SMART WAY CO2 SEQUESTRATION = PETROREDUCTION : Using geothermal electricity and flue gas from the Svartsengi power plant nearby, Carbon Recycling International (CRI) fuses waste CO2, with hydrogen split from water to create renewable methanol. (we sure can hope someone make ethanol out of CO2 to fulfil the dream of six packs coming out of smokestacks) The Reykjavik-based clean-tech venture recently began exporting the product to the Netherlands, where it is blended into gasoline. Its name, conjuring images of a comic book superhero, is Vulcanol. While others elsewhere are working on similar efforts to make green fuel from repurposed CO2, only CRI has been able to do it commercially, thanks to Iceland’s abundant supply of low-cost, earth-generated power. Innovations like this one would keep making news. It would be wrong to raise hopes very high on any of them because they will always come with their own limitations. The only certain answer is cut consumption. bit.ly/18yGpZt
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:52:36 +0000
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