Carbon capture technology is rapidly evolving from expensive experiment to viable infrastructure, with costs dropping 80% and major projects coming online worldwide. However, success depends on treating it as a complement to emissions reduction, not a replacement for urgent decarbonization.
Direct air capture technology is transforming from science fiction to commercial reality, pulling CO₂ from the atmosphere to create carbon-negative fuels. While costs are falling and deployment is accelerating, DAC remains a critical supplement—not a replacement—for aggressive emissions reductions.
Scientists have engineered electro-biodiesel—a revolutionary fuel made from CO₂, water, and renewable electricity that achieves 4.5% solar-to-molecule efficiency, 45 times better than soybean biodiesel, with potential for negative emissions. While pilot plants in Dresden and Chile demonstrate feasibility, commercial adoption hinges on solving catalyst degradation, slashing costs from $3/gallon to parity with fossil diesel, and scaling to gigawatt-level production. By 2034, the electrofuel mar...
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