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How a Dutch Factory Turns Greenhouse CO2 into Baking Soda
Most carbon capture projects bury CO2 underground. This episode takes you inside a factory in the Netherlands that does something different: it pipes waste CO2 from a nearby greenhouse and turns it into sodium bicarbonate — baking soda. Lucas and Luna walk through the chemistry (yes, it's a simple reaction), the economics (the plant turns a profit at roughly €80 per ton of CO2), and why this model matters more as Europe's carbon price climbs toward €150 per ton. The episode features the factory's 2024 annual output of 15,000 tons of baking soda, the greenhouse it's…
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