Someone just discovered recycling?
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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This isn't really storage... All of that C02 will be released when that beer is opened and consumed.
But I don't drink alcohol, so when I buy the beer the CO2 remains captured! Now I just need a very large cellar. Would the beer store more CO2 per volume than balloons filled with my exhale? So many open research questions, affordable carbon capture breakthrough any time now! /s
Beats having to use another source of co2 and letting all this be in the atmosphere anyway ig?
The dissolved oxygen has to leave the beer somehow to get the yeast to produce alcohol. You could use some energy-intensive process to remove the oxygen, but otherwise it naturally gets turned into the CO2 beer drinkers expect. And I doubt that energy-intensive process would be worth it in the end.
Though maybe the naturally present oxygen isn't enough to make it as carbonated as consumers expect, and more air or CO2 is pumped in to make it more carbonated. In that case using captured CO2 instead of letting the yeast turn some more of the wheat into CO2 would make a difference.
However much carbon could be put into one bottle is much much less than the carbon released from the creation of the beer