{"id":380808,"date":"2022-06-16T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=380808"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:30:00","slug":"this-estonian-scientist-turns-biggest-culprit-of-the-climate-crisis-co2-into-renewable-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/this-estonian-scientist-turns-biggest-culprit-of-the-climate-crisis-co2-into-renewable-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"This Estonian scientist turns biggest culprit of the climate crisis (CO2) into renewable resource"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The country can make good use of these green technologies, as it is still heavily dependent on oil shale<\/a>, a rock from which oil is produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas fermentation as solution<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“The concentration of CO2<\/sub> in our atmosphere is higher than ever and still growing. The energy transition through decarbonization is happening, but heavy industry and transportation in particular will continue to rely on carbon for some time to come. Fermentation is one way to replace fossil carbon with recycled carbon,” says Kaspar Valgepea, assistant professor at the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds the European Research Area (ERA<\/a>) chair for Gas Fermentation Technologies and established the state-of-the-art GasFermTEC laboratory<\/a> in Tartu in 2019. The laboratorium is part of the Estonian Centre for Biosustainability (ECB)<\/a>. With this green technology, the scientist aims to rid Estonia – and eventually the rest of the world – of two major problems of the climate crisis: excess of CO2<\/sub> in the atmosphere and ever-growing mountains of waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n