Carbon capture and recycling
The carbon in your gasoline was probably in the ancient air millions of years ago, before it was absorbed by plants and myriads of creatures and was then synthesized by nature. The advantage of the process developed by scientists is that it is much quicker! In the simplest method, carbon combines with hydrogen to form methane, CH4. Depending upon the circumstances, this may be easy to transport through the existing gas network, allowing time for the hydrogen infrastructure to be built up on a more local basis. The UK does have a hydrogen programme for refuelling vehicles, which is a good start, although we would like to have investment in stationary hydrogen fuel cell systems as well. Many scientists believe that we should be extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere , not adding to it, and they are finding innovative ways to utilize the carbon. Carbon capture and recycling (CCR) could be a safer and more cost effective way of doing this than carbon capture and storage (CCS).
