Re:When oil is no longer in demand
by th-ai on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:06PM
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https://www.newlight.com/company claims to produce plastic from CO2 for less cost than from oil https://youtu.be/GlPyDLGKYSQ?t=1m15s
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Re:When oil is no longer in demand
by throwaway5752 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:35PM
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"After 10 years of research and development, Newlight has commercialized a carbon capture technology that combines air with methane-based greenhouse gas emissions to produce a plastic material"
Rather than using natural gas as a plastics feedstock, they are using methane from organic sources (livestock bioproducts, landfills, other agricultural waste). They are using "greenhouse gases" but not CO2.