Baking soda slow down to global warming
Green living is one way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and capture and bury methods are other ways being researched by innovative engineers as potential means to reducing greenhouse gases. Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones goes one step further.Jones has devised a way to make baking soda out of carbon dioxide emissions with SkyMine, a process that converts 90 percent of carbon dioxide from smoke stacks into baking soda. The energy to make this conversion uses waste heat, making it an interesting green operation.
In addition, SkyMine removes 97 percent of heavy metals, sulfur and nitrogen compounds, making the baking soda cleaner than food grade baking soda.
In 2004, coal accounted for 39 percent of carbon dioxide and is expected to pass oil by 2010, according to the US Energy Information Agency. To learn more about a chemical engineer and an idea inspired by a Discovery Channel television show, read Can baking soda curb global warming.
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