Saturday, November 10, 2007

Device Captures Carbon Dioxide to Make Biodiesel

Three Welsh fishing buddies believe to have invented the ultimate device to solve the problem with carbon emissions.

They’ve created an emission-capturing Greenbox device that can be fixed underneath a car to trap carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide which are expelled from a car’s exhaust pipe. The captured gases would be fed to algae and crushed to produce a bio-oil, which would then be converted to create a biodiesel almost identical to normal diesel.

The trio of inventors (a biochemist and two engineers) are very hush-hush on the details of how the Greenbox actually works but they will do demonstrations. More than 130 tests have been carried out over the past 2 years and have yielded a carbon dioxide capture rate of 85 to 95 percent.

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