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This new factory will turn CO2 into sustainable jet fuel. Startup Twelve broke ground on a commercial-scale facility in Washington state, which it says will be the first in the country to make sust...::undefined

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[-] Sketchpad01@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for this startup to mysteriously disappear

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Or it stays BUT it can only turn 100t CO2 -> 1l fuel in 7 days. But it is used as PR - "We use 100%* sustainable jet fuel" *up to 100% if it was cheap and blah blah.

And then flight prices soar up 2x boom.

[-] WEAPONX@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Or they figure out it's cheaper to burn something to produce CO2 than recycle it from the atmosphere.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago

To start, the company procures ​“waste” CO2 from industrial facilities. Twelve has developed its own electrochemical reactor to split carbon dioxide molecules into carbon monoxide using electricity. Engineers then use a separate electrolyzer to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The resulting mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen is known as ​“syngas.”

Finally, the team deploys a multistep reaction called the Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the gas into a liquid — one that’s chemically identical to jet fuel made from petroleum.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I read somewhere that this is worse than just collecting carbon, since jet fuel will be burnt in the upper atmosphere, where it's even harder to retrieve the CO2.

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