carbon dioxide
CO2 Shortage Affecting Beer Production
The beer industry is facing a carbon dioxide shortage. And the situation is serious because CO2 is a key ingredient in beer production. NTD spoke with Chuck Skypeck, technical brewing projects director at the Brewers Association, about the situation.
UK Meat Industry Warns of Imminent Supply Threat From CO2 Crisis
LONDON—Britain’s meat processors will start running out of carbon dioxide (CO2) within five days, forcing them to halt production and impacting supplies to retailers, the industry’s lobby group warned on Monday. A jump in gas prices has forced several domestic energy suppliers out of business and has shut fertilizer plants that also make CO2 as […]
Smokestack Fighting: Carbon Capture Promises to Slash Emissions, and Greens Hate It
Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have designed a pioneering project to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the existing Mustang natural gas power plant in West Texas. If built, the project could help kickstart an industry to clean up America’s energy sector after a decade of false starts. The protest against carbon capture […]
Danish factory stores electricity as methane
German firm Electrochaea built a factory in Copenhagen, Denmark, where microbes convert electricity into natural gas. Electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is combined with carbon dioxide (CO2) to make methane. The methane can be stored, or sent to gas users through existing pipe systems. Electricity is easy to […]
Geologists drilling into Earth for solution to climate change
These scientists are drilling in Oman’s al-Hajar mountain range, in search of a solution to climate change. The geologists have been looking to reduce greenhouse gases by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, CO2, is the primary greenhouse gas driving climate change. CO2 levels have risen since the Industrial Revolution and are not […]
No Turning Back As Earth Permanently Passes CO2 Threshold
Under the imperfect but groundbreaking Paris agreement, now ratified by the world’s two largest carbon emitters, it’s hoped that the world will not warm by more than 2°C (3.6°F) by 2100. Sadly, we have registered so many high-temperature records this year alone that it’s looking doubtful that this will be achieved – and it appears that […]
Scientists Just Accidentally Figured Out How To Turn CO2 Into Fuel In A Breakthrough Study
Scientists in Tennessee claim that, somewhat serendipitously, they converted carbon dioxide into ethanol. The researchers, who work at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developed a process that adds “nano-spikes” — essentially tiny bursts — of carbon and copper to CO2 to transform it into ethanol, the type of alcohol found in hand […]