There’s a New Place to Store Greenhouse Gases: In Your Beer (www.nytimes.com)

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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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[-] Jimny_Crkt@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago

This isn't really storage... All of that C02 will be released when that beer is opened and consumed.

[-] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

Indeed. The CO~2~ isn'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~2~ like breweries with a reliable and supposedly low carbon alternative for their CO~2~ gas needs. Normally this CO~2~ would be a waste product from refineries, but these incur more inefficiencies due to transportation. Also, recently the refineries have been opting to sequester their CO~2~ instead 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.

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