Putting the Fizz Back into Planet Earth

Costing the Earth

• Episode: Putting the Fizz Back into Planet Earth
• Website: Costing the Earth
• Feed URL: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b006r4wn.rss
• Duration: 00:27:55
• Published: 2016-11-08 16:34

Can we find a use for all that pesky climate-changing carbon dioxide? If we can turn excess CO2 into something useful we might just be able to slow down the rate of global warming. It's a dream shared by lots of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs. At the ACI Carbon Utilisation conference in Lyon, Tom meets the Germans turning CO2 into a fuel and the French researchers aiming to mimic nature's photosynthesis process. In Oxford he talks to a company making fertiliser from waste and a chemist creating innovative plastics whilst in Avonmouth he sees CO2 transformed into concrete blocks that are already being used in house building around the country. Producer: Alasdair Cross.