The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

CO2 is the ubiquitous feedstock, available from a range of point sources, as well as in the atmosphere. It’s the only feedstock measured in gigatons. Domestic biorefineries emit a very pure CO2 wastestream, and represent an early opportunity for deployment of CO2 utilization technologies. But how do we use it? NREL’s Jack Ferrell leads a team investigating how multiple forces combine to make capture + utilization of CO2 attractive: Climate change, the increase in C utilization of existing processes, the rise of inexpensive, intermittent electricity. What are the real opportunities?