Out of Thin Air: Clean Fuel for Heavy Transportation and Industry—David Keith—Carbon Engineering
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Most of us are aware that we're in the midst of an energy and environmental crisis, two problems for which a number of efforts are being deployed in an attempt to find a solution. For example, solar panels are commonplace, and various efforts are being made to capture CO2 from the atmosphere in order to limit its detrimental effects on the environment and human health. Neither of these efforts, however, are able to meet the high-energy needs of heavy transportation such as airplanes and other freight modes, as well as some industrial equipment. So, what do we need to do?
According to David Keith, chief scientist and founder of Carbon Engineering, we need a method for taking carbon free energy from solar power and turning it into fuel which is transportable, storable, has a high energy density, and can be compatible with existing infrastructure. This is exactly what he's working on, and he's accomplishing it by taking solar power and combining it with CO2 from the atmosphere. It is from this method that the synthesis of fuels that are chemically the same as existing fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and kerosene is made possible, and it's all being done cleanly, without exploiting fossil fuels.
Tune in to hear Keith explain the ins and outs of what his company is establishing, and the promise it may hold for the future. Learn more by visiting carbonengineering.com
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| 1:08.0 | My guest is David Keith. |
| 1:10.0 | He's the Chief Scientist and Board Member, and founder of Carbon Engineering, the website. the I read the article where they talked about direct air capture to pull I guess |
| 1:25.5 | carbon dioxide out of the air. Can we talk a little bit about that? You know what |
| 1:29.3 | how did that technology work and you know what are some of the nuances of it? |
| 1:34.0 | Direct air capture just the process of concentrating CO2 of you know taking in |
| 1:39.1 | atmospheric air and having as an output pure stream of carbon dioxide |
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