{"id":1746,"date":"2015-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-684\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:01","slug":"innovation-anthology-684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2015\/04\/28\/innovation-anthology-684\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #684:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 684.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Arial;\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Trebuchet MS\";\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:none;\n\tmso-hyphenate:none;\n\tmso-layout-grid-align:none;\n\tpunctuation-wrap:simple;\n\ttext-autospace:none;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Ingenuity Lab at the University of Alberta is developing a fix for excess emissions of carbon dioxide.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">The group has replicated the biological process of<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>photosynthesis that plants use to fix carbon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Dr. Carlo Montemagno is Ingenuity Lab&#8217;s director.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As he explains, his team has created a reactor that<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>captures carbon<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>dioxide and fixes it into a solid structure.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It can then be transformed into other products like drop-in chemicals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">DR. CARLO MONTEMAGNO:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\">So we&#8217;ve identified over 40 different drop-in chemicals that we can manufacture.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Right now we&#8217;re focused on using this technology in<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>high CO2 streams, basically exhaust gas out of power plants and other sorts of industrial operations.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>But if we&#8217;re able to drive the cost down, you could easily use solar energy and actually make CO2 farms in which you are using sunlight to to capture CO2 and produce valuable added products and you&#8217;d be farming the CO2 out of the atmosphere directly.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; 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