get carbon is the issue . What we want to do is enable a new sustainable source of carbon within society .
“ We ’ ve known how to turn CO₂ into basically every product we need , including building materials , plastics , chemicals , fuels , vodka and yoga mats for years . It ’ s just you can ’ t get the CO₂ . The CO₂ supply chain is the actual problem that ’ s limiting the growth of those technologies . If you actually have a cheap abundance source of CO₂ , these technologies can start to replace fossil fuel source carbon or economy .
“ There is already a US $ 10bn market for CO₂ as a commodity gas , primarily in the food and drink and construction sectors . There is a growing demand , from a policy perspective , for synthetic fuels to be included in all planes by 2025 .
“ Fundamentally , what this project is about is enabling integration certification of synthetic fuels made from CO₂ , but then we also need to remove an obscene amount of CO₂ from the atmosphere . What we need is a technology that can take CO₂ from its own location , purify that up and provide that CO₂ as a carbon source for whatever industry wants it . I think the verticals that make the most sense economically and from a climate perspective are building materials because one , we ’ re not going to stop building things and you could view every city we make as a huge carbon sink if you can inject this into making the building material have its own economic value in the marketplace .” sustainabilitymag . com 119