Los Alamos National Labs has created a fuel they called, “Green Freedom“. They have created a new process for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and making the building blocks of a liquid. Los Alamos National Laboratory developed the concept for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.

The Lab uses non-hazardous materials for its feed and operation and has a small waste stream volume. In addition, unlike large-scale bio fuel concepts, the Green Freedom system does not add pressure to agricultural capacity or use large tracts of land or farming resources for production. Green Freedom system can use existing cooling towers, such as those of nuclear power plants, with carbon-capture equipment that eliminates the need for additional structures to process large volumes of air

The next phase will demonstrate the new electrochemical process to prove the ability of the system to both capture carbon dioxide and pull it back out of solution. An industrial partnership consortium will be formed to commercialize the Green Freedom concept. The principal market for the Green Freedom production concept is fuel for vehicles and aircraft.

References

1. Sustainable Design Updates

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