{"id":3921,"date":"2021-12-05T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/05\/from-pollutant-to-product-the-companies-making-stuff-from-co2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-05T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T11:36:28","slug":"from-pollutant-to-product-the-companies-making-stuff-from-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/05\/from-pollutant-to-product-the-companies-making-stuff-from-co2\/","title":{"rendered":"From pollutant to product: the companies making stuff from CO2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodka, jet fuel, protein\u2026 according to a new clutch of carbon-to-value startups, these are just some of the things that can be manufactured from thin air<\/p>\n

In a warehouse laboratory in Berkeley, California, Nicholas Flanders stands in front of a shiny metal box about the size of a washing machine. Inside is a stack of metal plates that resemble a club sandwich \u2013 only the filling is a black polymer membrane coated with proprietary metal catalyst. \u201cWe call the membrane the black leaf,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Flanders is the co-founder and CEO of Twelve<\/a>, a startup founded in 2015, which received a $57m<\/a> funding boost in July. It aims to take air \u2013 or, to be more precise, the carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) in it \u2013 and transform it into something useful, as plants also do, eliminating damaging emissions in the process. Taking the unwanted gas wreaking havoc on our climate and using only water and renewable electricity, Twelve\u2019s metal box houses a new kind of electrolyser that transforms the CO2<\/sub> into synthetic gas (syngas), a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that can be made into a range of familiar products usually made from fossil fuels. Oxygen is the only by-product. This August, the pilot scale equipment made the syngas that went into what Flanders claims is the world\u2019s first carbon neutral, fossil-free jet fuel. \u201cThis is a new way of moving carbon through our economy without pulling it out of the ground,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

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\nVodka, jet fuel, protein\u2026 according to a new clutch of carbon-to-value startups, these are just some of the things that can be manufactured from thin air
\nIn a warehouse laboratory in Berkeley, California, Nicholas Flanders stands in front of a shiny metal box about the size of a washing machine. Inside is a stack of metal plates that resemble a club sandwich \u2013 only the filling is a black polymer membrane coated with proprietary metal catalyst. \u201cWe call the membrane the black leaf,\u201d he says.
\nFlanders is the co-founder and CEO of Twelve, a startup founded in 2015, which received a $57m funding boost in July. It aims to take air \u2013 or, to be more precise, the carbon dioxide (CO2) in it \u2013 and transform it into something useful, as plants also do, eliminating damaging emissions in the process. Taking the unwanted gas wreaking havoc on our climate and using only water and renewable electricity, Twelve\u2019s metal box houses a new kind of electrolyser that transforms the CO2 into synthetic gas (syngas), a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that can be made into a range of familiar products usually made from fossil fuels. Oxygen is the only by-product. This August, the pilot scale equipment made the syngas that went into what Flanders claims is the world\u2019s first carbon neutral, fossil-free jet fuel. \u201cThis is a new way of moving carbon through our economy without pulling it out of the ground,\u201d he says. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vodka, jet fuel, protein\u2026 according to a new clutch of carbon-to-value startups, these are just some of the things that can be manufactured from thin air In a warehouse laboratory in Berkeley, California, Nicholas Flanders stands in front of a shiny metal box about the size of a washing machine. Inside is a stack of …<\/p>\n

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