Arbors vegetarian rocket engine power plant is actually an omnivore | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Arbor Energy has raised a $55 million Series A led by Lowercarbon Capital and Voyager Ventures.
- The power plant is going to be more of an omnivore, capable of burning natural gas in addition to biomass.
- Arbor still plans to capture CO2 from the power plant, which uses oxy-combustion, which transforms hydrocarbons into syngas and then burns it in the presence of pure oxygen.
- The startup confirmed that it is still in the process of building a power plant in Louisiana that will burn biomass.
Two years ago, former SpaceX engineers used rocket tech to develop a power plant capable of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with a small asterisk. To draw down CO2, it burned plant waste [+2449 chars]
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