I just saw a post on Facebook about a supermarket whose shelves are low on pops and carbonated waters because of a CO² shortage. What’s to stop people from pulling CO² from the air and cleaning it of impurities to use it in the drink manufacturing process?
In: Chemistry
What you’re suggesting is called a CO2 scrubber, and is an **outrageously** expensive piece of technology that pretty much only sees use in industrial filtering applications and airtight environments such as spacecrafts and submarines.
Pulling CO2 out of our atmosphere for something as trivial as fizzy drinks when there are many chemical processes that generate a ton of CO2 just as a byproduct does not make economic sense for anyone.
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