skyonic.gifSkyonic has a cool idea. The type of idea I like. Take some sodium hydroxide, add some heat, and you can trap co2 by changing it into sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) and release hydrogen. Now the CO2 is in a solid form and it’s useful. All you need is some heat.

Now put this at an existing Coal Fired power plant, and in tests it’s trapping up to 90% of the CO2, and producing hydrogen using the waste heat of the plant. Better yet, you end up with products you can sell to pay for this (so it’s a profit venture) Super pure sodium bicarbonate and Hydrogen. As a bonus, it also removes most of the heavy metals from the plant emissions. The company is called Skyonic (an Austin based company), and they hope build a full sized plant to do just this in 2009. The process is not perfect, and not done, but heck, this is a direction I’ve not seen anyone go in before.

Now if they just had a publicly traded stock …