Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere Really Work?

A Columbia scientist and his startup think they have a plan to save the world. Now they have to convince the rest of us.

Physicist Peter Eisenberger had expected colleagues to react to his idea with skepticism. He was claiming, after all, to have invented a machine that could clean the atmosphere of its excess carbon dioxide, making the gas into fuel or storing it underground. And the Columbia University scientist was aware that naming his two-year-old startup Global Thermostat http://globalthermostat.com/ hadn’t exactly been an exercise in humility.

By Eli Kintisch

Full Story: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531346/can-sucking-co2-out-of-the-atmosphere-really-work/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20141007

(Many thanks to Lance Trebesch at http://www.ticketriver.com for sharing this.)