Your Breath Could Be Recycled into Fuel
The Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in Liverpool, U.K., will soon become the world’s first to try a revolutionary piece of technology that will recycle the breath of passengers into biofuel.
The Eco-box, developed by Origo Industries, will capture the CO2 exhaled by airport travelers and convert it to fuel to be used in the airport’s diesel vehicles and heating system.
The Eco-box was originally designed to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles. It works by capturing carbon emissions through a photo-bioreactor as a feedstock for algae, producing biomass that is then refined and converted to green fuel.
“The project at the airport is an early trial of a system which we believe could have a significant impact on the way companies today can obtain fuel and manage carbon emissions,” said Iain Houston, Origo’s CEO and founder.
Photo by Green Diary.
Mark Bantigue on February 20th, 2009 10:19 am
it seems logical. technology should emulate nature’s symbiosis processes (plant-animal resource cycles). they are already doing this using algae to recycle industrial/power plant by-products as well as methane collection at cow farms. this trend SHOULD escalate if we want our lifestyle on this rock to continue.
Jaclyn on February 20th, 2009 10:23 am
That is a really cool idea for a new fuel alternative! that would definitely be better for the economy as far as the burning of the new fuel was concerned. and just think of how much cheaper that would be, thousands of people basically supplying how ever much of their breathe that is turned into fuel, that would definitely be a money saver i think.
jaeda on February 23rd, 2009 12:32 am
…. ideas was great, continue doing so! amazing….
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