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 company does not plan to sell its technology to businesses that don’t plan on capturing the carbon for use or sequestration.
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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