Carbon Dioxide Emissions turned into household baking soda

By Tiffany Rider


Popular Science has been covering in recent months how to reduce global warming and what people are doing to help the environment.

The magazine featured a company called Skyonic, who has created a system that can turn carbon dioxide into baking soda. This system, dubbed Skymine, uses CO2 emitted from smokestacks to create the widely-used household product. The concept of creating baking soda from carbon dioxide has been around for years; the idea for Skymine came from a college textbook passage discussing this idea.

The baking soda produced using this method can be sold for home or industrial purposes, or can be harmlessly buried in the ground.

Joe David Jones, the CEO of Skyonic, believes that this method is better than the idea of shoving carbon dioxide into underground caves. According to Jones, the baking soda created from his Skymine system is cleaner than the food-grade baking soda.

The Skymine system is still in its early stages, with hopes of expanding to a larger scale. If this is accomplished, the harmful challenges with carbon dioxide sequestration may be altered in a positive way.

In the CNET article, the company Novomer is mentioned as another company trying to use CO2 emissions in a positive way. Novomer hopes to use carbon dioxide to create plastics, and other companies hope to use CO2 gasses to create a liquid fuel.

To check out the CNN article, CLICK HERE.
To read the CNET article, CLICK HERE.