SpaceX’s Elon Musk is going into the carbon capture business

Photo caption: SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of Earth’s atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. The project will not only help alleviate climate change on Earth but will be instrumental to Musk’s desire to build a settlement on Mars. Photo of Mars by Kevin M. Gill via Flickr – CC BY 2.0. Opinion article by Mark R. Whittington. The Hill – January 9, 2022.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is Time magazine’s current Person of the Year, is often accused of neglecting problems on Earth in favor of conducting his private space program. The accusation is unfair on a number of levels. After all, Musk also runs an electric car company. Now, the space entrepreneur has announced on Twitter a new initiative that may prove flying into space could also benefit the Earth.

“SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if interested,” he tweeted. […]

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