There’s a New Place to Store Greenhouse Gases: In Your Beer
A pub in California is pulling carbon dioxide from the air to carbonate pints. If the business model works, it could give the broader carbon-capture industry a boost.
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This isn't really storage... All of that C02 will be released when that beer is opened and consumed.
But I don't drink alcohol, so when I buy the beer the CO2 remains captured! Now I just need a very large cellar. Would the beer store more CO2 per volume than balloons filled with my exhale? So many open research questions, affordable carbon capture breakthrough any time now! /s
Indeed. The CO
2isn't digested by humans, so it fizzes right back out of the drink or gurgles out from the drinker.Then again, the headline is somewhat misleading as the product the article covers isn't for carbon sequestration. Instead, it's to provide consumers of CO
2like breweries with a reliable and supposedly low carbon alternative for their CO2gas needs. Normally this CO2would be a waste product from refineries, but these incur more inefficiencies due to transportation. Also, recently the refineries have been opting to sequester their CO2instead of selling it (which is a good thing IMO).I'm reporting all of this from the contents of the article; I haven't verified any of the claims.
However much carbon could be put into one bottle is much much less than the carbon released from the creation of the beer
IMO sinking a waste product into something you’re gonna make already is an efficiency gain.
Someone just discovered recycling?