Novel Carbon Dioxide Utilization Technologies: A Means to an End

Abstract

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is an essential feature of climate mitigation. With current techniques falling short in terms of performance, cost, and environmental integrity, novel CO 2 utilization has the potential to create a multi-billion dollar commodity market that is capable of sequestering large amounts of CO 2 from the atmosphere. To achieve this, significant development in terms of government funding, policy change, and research is needed. This review highlights the current state of novel CO 2 utilization technologies. The paper evaluates their future prospects by drawing parallels with two successfully developed hardware-heavy technologies of the last 50 years, namely the solar and the automobile industries. Both technologies have had radically different commercialization pathways, and offer important insights on facilitating and accelerating the development of novel CO 2 utilization technologies to meet critically relevant climate targets.

Environmental Galenics: large-scale fortification of extant microbiomes with engineered bioremediation agents

“…today) and even jewellery (https://aetherdiamonds.com). In a more realistic realm, the science and technology of creating value out of C-containing waste-what is being called carbon upcycling (CU; [18])-is currently experiencing a considerable push because of its commercial prospects and its considerable marketing potential [19]. In particular, one-carbon biotechnology is indeed one of the frontiers of contemporary research and likely to deliver many marketable items from otherwise wasted precursors [20][21][22][23][24][25].…”

Spiers Memorial Lecture: CO2 utilization: why, why now, and how?

“…CDU is now being positioned towards market introduction, as observed previously in other technology elds. 14,15 A 2016 study described a roadmap to a trillion-dollar market, highlighting the opportunities and documenting that at the time, less than 200 entities were engaged in commercial endeavors for CO 2 utilization. 11,16 That number has since increased incrementally, and some technologies have now achieved a sufficient maturity level to be deployed to markets, such as the production of chemicals, CO 2 -cured concrete, and aggregates.…”

Capture of CO2 and Water While Driving for Use in the Food and Agricultural Systems

“…Heavy manufacturing industries face the challenge of finding sustainable technologies to reduce their carbon emissions. Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) are a broad set of technologies to help reduce CO 2 emissions, and CO 2 utilization is a promising driver to carbon capture and storage since the production and sale of CO 2 -derived products could provide an economic incentive to decarbonization and, particularly, increase the sustainability of agricultural production systems [31,32].…”

“…Technological innovations in both the current fossil fuel energy sources and the automobile industry offer opportunities in deploying novel CO 2 utilization at a meaningful scale to reduce carbon emissions [32,33]. However, these operations require high capital and high operating costs [34], are not fully sustainable, and cannot be deployed at large-scale [35,36].…”

“…The condensing aqueous phase is essentially water as observed from the small fraction condensed for CO 2 and N 2 . A condensed ratio of 87.11 for water (20°C 32.00 nN 2 /nO 2 [[1] 3.71 [1] Molar ratio in air cooling) indicates that about 13% of the water produced is still present in the gas phase and will move on to the next stages.…”