- Company Makes CO2 Into Liquid Fuel, with Help from a Volcano
An Icelandic company figures out how to make methanol from waste CO2, but the economics may not work without a nearby volcano.
When a geothermal power plant started spewing hot water into the barren, volcanic landscape of Iceland’s Southern Peninsula in 1976, the locals turned the steaming lake into a health spa that’s now frequented by half a million people a year. Now a small Icelandic company is hoping to turn a profit from waste carbon dioxide from the same plant.
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