Out of Thin Air

摘要

If plants can make poiyester from air, why can't humans? That's the question California-based Newlight Technologies CEO Mark Herrema asked as his company embarked on a decade-long quest to develop the GHG-to-Plastic process, which isolates, polymerizes, and reassembles carbon and oxygen elements from greenhouse gases into a long-chain thermopolymer-essentially converting gases into solids. The resulting plastic resin, AirCarbon, can be used in lieu of petroleum-based plastics in formats ranging from films to injection-molded components.