Baking Power Out of Carbon? Indian Firm Makes Carbon Capture Breakthrough

A company called Carbonclean is planning to turn planet-heating CO2 emissions into profit by converting them into something else. That’s right, they plan on converting CO2 into baking powder and even lock up 60,000 tons of CO2 a year.
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Are you out of baking powder? Carbon dioxide maybe a solution!

A company called Carbonclean is planning to turn planet-heating CO2 emissions into profit by converting them into something else. That’s right, they plan on converting CO2 into baking powder and even lock up 60,000 tons of CO2 a year.

All of this breakthrough is part of the race to make useful products out of CO2 emissions has been made in southern India.

According to The Guardian, a plant at the industrial port of Tuticorin is capturing CO2 from its own coal-powered boiler and is using it to make soda ash, also called baking powder.

The technology is currently running without subsidy, which is a big step for carbon capture…