{"id":132431,"date":"2021-12-14T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-spacex-is-going-to-start-sucking-co2-out-of-the-air-and-turning-it-into-rocket-fuel"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:24:38","slug":"elon-musk-says-spacex-is-going-to-start-sucking-co2-out-of-the-air-and-turning-it-into-rocket-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-spacex-is-going-to-start-sucking-co2-out-of-the-air-and-turning-it-into-rocket-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and Turning It Into Rocket Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-spacex-is-going-to-start-sucking-co2-out-of-the-air-and-turning-it-into-rocket-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is embarking on a bold new adventure: making rocket fuel out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UvgSSwJMhNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere &amp; turn it into rocket fuel,\u201d CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday. \u201cPlease join if interested.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The news comes after Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UvgSSwJMhNQ\" class=\"\">announced a $100 million prize<\/a> to come up with carbon removal technologies earlier this year. The goal is to pull 1,000 tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere annually \u2014 and eventually scaling up the operation dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is one of those things that is going to take a while to figure out what the right solution is,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com.\/business\/autos-transportation\/tesla-ceo-musk-puts-100-mln-jolt-into-quest-carbon-removal-2021-04-22\/\" class=\"\">Musk explained<\/a> back in April. \u201cAnd especially to figure out what the best economics are for CO2 removal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now we\u2019ve only got one planet,\u201d Musk said at the time. \u201cEven a 0.1 percent chance of disaster \u2014 why run that risk? That\u2019s crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-spacex-is-going-to-start-sucking-co2-out-of-the-air-and-turning-it-into-rocket-fuel\">Continue reading \u201cElon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and Turning It Into Rocket Fuel\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is embarking on a bold new adventure: making rocket fuel out of thin air. \u201cSpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere &amp; turn it into rocket fuel,\u201d CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday. \u201cPlease join if interested.\u201d The news comes after Musk announced a $100 million prize to come up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}