Carbochemicals
These days, petrochemical is a dirty word, and rightly so, since it is associated with a dirty, pollution- and climate-causing industry. But chemistry itself is not inherently dirty. And much of what we derive from petrochemicals can be extracted from sources other than fossil fuels. The San Francisco start-up Twelve, for example, is using renewable electricity to perform industrial photosynthesis, a process that extracts useful chemical elements from carbon dioxide and water, and then turns these into the raw materials used in thousands of products. They’re already working with Mercedes-Benz and Procter & Gamble, so scaling is already happening.
— Wayne Visser
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