CO2 To Help Producing Biofuel
By Nick February 26, 2008
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a research institution which is committing to science for the national security. Also they must ensure the safety and the reliability of the development of technologies meant to prevent damages from weapons of mass destruction, to find new ways of producing energy, to protect the environment and other global issues. L.A.N.L consists of Bechtel National, BWX Technologies, the University of California and the Washington Group International for the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Security Administration.
The Laboratory has developed a “converting” concept named Green Freedom for the production of carbon-neutral and sulfur free fuels. Their main target is the production of fuel for vehicles and aircrafts. The whole process is about the extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to transform it into fuel, this process is called electrochemical separation.
This concept has the purpose to dramatically decrease the dependence on oil by analyzing the market and make the prices of Green Freedom comparable with those of imported oil. This concept is very green because it uses non-hazardous materials and is almost zero-waste, and it doesn’t add pressure on agriculture.
In the next months the project will enter the next phase where it must demonstrate its abilities and if all goes well then an industrial consortium will produce and commercialize the Green Freedom.
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