Energy: China discovers a technique to convert industrial waste gas into sustainable biofuels. The Chinese airapocalypse could end up within the 2030

A study published in the journal Science Advances and carried out by Chinese, French and American scientists, reveals that Beijing has a chance to solve the pollution problem and return to breathe air similar to that breathed before the economic boom of the 80s translated into unprecedented levels of pollution.

The airapocalypse, which hit 70% of the 74 main Chinese cities in the winter of 2012-2013, recorded levels of pollution higher than the air quality standards set by the Chinese government, far more permissive than those in Europe. The situation has led Beijing to do more to reduce emissions on several fronts:

  • introducing heavy penalties for those who break environmental standards;
  • adopting new production technologies that are less expensive in terms of energy;
  • investing heavily in renewables (last year the People's Republic became the world's largest producer of solar energy).

In this regard, the Nova agency reports that China has discovered a technique to convert industrial waste gas into sustainable biofuel and that the Chinese joint venture Shougang lanzaTech will inaugurate a plant that will convert industrial exhaust gases in the next month. sustainable biofuels, 99,5% pure liquid ethanol.

The plant, the first of its kind in the world, according to the objectives, will produce, by the end of the year, 46 thousand tons of ethanol-based fuel, 76,5 million tons of animal feed and 3,3 million of cubic meters of compressed natural gas.

 

Energy: China discovers a technique to convert industrial waste gas into sustainable biofuels. The Chinese airapocalypse could end up within the 2030

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