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A pioneering NASA Mars contest to make sugar from CO2 While there are significant efforts for CO2 conversion to fuels and chemicals, of recent interest has been efforts for converting CO2 to sugar. It has even got NASA interested – so much that it recently held an exciting contest for...

Carbon footprint of synthetic fuels from CO2 There are many ongoing research efforts – in academia and in corporate – for green synthesis of fuels and chemicals from CO2. While these efforts are very likely to produce low carbon fuels (though perhaps not at low costs!), what will be of...

 Importance of catalysts for CO2 to value For those wondering what the CO2 conversion to all sorts of things craze is all about, I can tell you at least one thing all of them are most certainly about: Catalysts. Most pathways for conversion of CO2 to value depend on catalysts...

Using nature’s methods to convert CO2 to value We have, right in front of us, something that converts CO2 to value everyday – plants and trees. What can we learn from the processes used by the biomass to create value from CO2? While we are all aware of photosynthesis using...

Capturing CO2 from wine and beer fermentation Our atmospheric air currently has a CO2 concentration of about 415 PPM (parts per million, by volume) – for those curious, you can see what it is today from here – https://lnkd.in/guGj4JDu When you realize that 1000 PPM would be 0.1% (1000/1000000), you...

Will hot sparks fly when thermal catalysts meets electrical? How valuable would it be if two different teams working on different types of catalytic reactions – one relying on heat based catalysis and another on electricity based catalysis – started interacting with each other? Can one catalyse the other when...

Here’s some CO2, can you make it into diesel please? If you had never heard of the term Fischer Tropsch, you belong to the vast majority. But if you are a scientist or an engineer, it is likely that you will hear of it more often in future. Because the...

Why would someone pour oil down the ground? One would have thought this was batty if it were not for a San Francisco company actually doing business and making money with this idea. The SFO company Charm is converting biomass into oil and pouring it into the earth. Why would...

CLIMAX looking for interns for analysing climate innovations A week back, we launched CLIMAX, the climate innovation accelerator platform. The platform is in beta, and we plan to build it out to the next stage by end of 2021. CLIMAX revolves around Decarbonization Avenues (DA), powerful solution pathways for reducing...

CLIMAX – maximizing value from climate innovations Happy to launch CLIMAX, an online platform that aims to accelerate innovations for climate change mitigation. Innovations will drive climate efforts for the next few decades, and we wish to play a small but valuable role in the global climate innovation ecosystem. CLIMAX...