{"id":1539,"date":"2014-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-607\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:52","slug":"innovation-anthology-607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2014\/04\/22\/innovation-anthology-607\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #607:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 607.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation has announced 24 winners in its Grand Challenge. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over 300 organizations entered with novel ideas to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the winning recipients is a company called Pioneer Energy from Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s president Dr. Robert Zubrin .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DR  ROBERT ZUBRIN:<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;What our technology will do is capture flare gas and  turn it into butanol which is a liquid fuel that can be used to power  automobiles. <\/span>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Pioneer Energy will use the $500,000 dollar Grand Challenge award to scale up its technology.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DR.  ROBERT ZUBRIN: <\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We have established the fundamental scientific  feasibility of this process. &nbsp;We have done every step individually and  it shows that it can be done. &nbsp; &nbsp;What needs to be done, however, now is  to be linked up and make it all work together as a unified process. &nbsp;And  that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do in this project. &nbsp; First we&#8217;re going to  it at a small rate, at just a litre a day, then we&#8217;re going to do ten  litres a day and that will give us a pretty good idea of what the  challenges are to go into thousands of litres a day.<\/span> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zubrin says turning flare gas into butanol will  reduce waste and reduce emissions around the world. &nbsp;The butanol can  also be shipped in the same pipelines used for gasoline.<br \/>: &nbsp;<br \/>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccemc.ca\">Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/ian_CCEMC-B_RGB_FullName_logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02014-04-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation has announced 24 winners in its Grand Challenge.&nbsp; Over 300 organizations entered with novel ideas to reduce carbon emissions.&nbsp; One of the winning recipients is a Colorado company called Pioneer Energy that will turn flare gas into butanol to power automobiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,14,66,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-competitions","category-climate-change","category-climate-change-and-emissions-management-corporation","category-energy","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}