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From IEEE Spectrum

podcasts under the name radio Spectrum, hosted by Steven Cherry

Steven Cherry: People have been talking about CSS—which alternatively stands for carbon capture and storage, or carbon capture and sequestration—for well over a decade. To boost progress, the Carbon XPrize was founded to, as a Spectrum article at the time said, turn “CO2 molecules into products with higher added value.” One of the more unlikely finalists has emerged from the hipsterish Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. Their solution to climate change: vodka. The Air Company takes carbon dioxide that has been liquefied and distills it into ethanol, and then fine-tunes it into vodka. The resulting product is, the company claims, not only carbon neutral but carbon negative.