{"id":12178,"date":"2018-08-10t17:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-10t17:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/co2-capture-reuse-needs-to-be-sustainable-and-profitable\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10t17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10t17:09:58","slug":"carbon-dioxide-capture-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/carbon-dioxide-capture-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"co2 capture, reuse needs to be sustainable \u2014 and profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"
by roxanne (yanchun) liu and minghe hu<\/strong><\/p>\n washington \u2014 the university of michigan is investing millions of dollars to create technologies that capture carbon dioxide and turn it into commercial products, but some experts say this approach might not help reduce greenhouse gas or fit in well with the market demand.<\/p>\n the michigan program, which received $4.5 million in seed money from the michigan engineering school and other fundraising activities, aims to build technologies that capture carbon dioxide directly from the air and find ways to convert the gas into commercial materials that private companies can used, the university said wednesday. the goal is to extract the equivalent of 10% of current carbon dioxide emissions each year by 2030.<\/p>\n currently, some companies seeking to offset the high cost of carbon dioxide capture sell the gas to food industries as raw material for carbonated drinks and dry ice used in food preservation, said colin mccormick, chief technologist at valence strategic, a consultancy firm specializing in disruptive technologies and energy industries.<\/p>\n but carbon dioxide locked in those products evaporates after only a few days or weeks and cycles back into the air, which is contradictory to the conventional idea of storing greenhouse gas permanently.<\/p>\n \u201cas you use [the captured carbon dioxide] and release it, you need to capture it and use it again; then it still helps,\u201d said volker sick, a mechanical engineering professor at university of michigan. \u201cbut if it’s not bound for long, the effect for the atmosphere is not good.\u201d<\/p>\n