Elon Musk announced his rocket company SpaceX is planning to start a program in order to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and turn it into rocket fuel.
The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that the technology will “also be important for Mars”. On Monday, Musk published on the social media:
The statement came days after the SpaceX and Tesla founder was named Time magazine’s person of the year.
A “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman” in its piece – that’s how the magazine called him.
The Financial Times newspaper also named him as their person of the year on Wednesday.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was surpassed by Musk`s nomination as the world’s wealthiest person this year.
There is currently no further information on the carbon capture plans from SpaceX.
It is not yet clear how SpaceX would capture carbon and turn it into rocket fuel. Scientific processes do exist, such as the one used by Canadian company Carbon Engineering, which is making liquid fuel with carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which is then combined with hydrogen from water.
