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Baking Soda: The Cure for Global Warming?

Carbon sequestration that produces a food-grade kitchen staple

By popsci Posted 11.27.2007 at 6:35 pm 9 Comments

In recent months, PopSci has covered various scientists' plans to curb global warming through carbon sequestration, mainly by feeding it to algae to make biofuel, or burying it underground.

Today, a company called Skyonic announced a novel new system, Skymine, which uses the carbon dioxide emitted from smokestacks to make baking soda. According to Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones, the system will be powered by waste heat from factories, and will produce food-grade baking soda.

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