AUTHOR=Warsi Yusra , Kabanov Vladimir , Zhou Peter , Sinha Apoorv 

TITLE=Novel Carbon Dioxide Utilization Technologies: A Means to an End

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Energy Research

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/energy-research/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2020.574147

DOI=10.3389/fenrg.2020.574147

ISSN=2296-598X

ABSTRACT=<p>Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is an essential feature of climate mitigation. With current techniques falling short in terms of performance, cost, and environmental integrity, novel CO<sub>2</sub> utilization has the potential to create a multi-billion dollar commodity market that is capable of sequestering large amounts of CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere. To achieve this, significant development in terms of government funding, policy change, and research is needed. This review highlights the current state of novel CO<sub>2</sub> utilization technologies. The paper evaluates their future prospects by drawing parallels with two successfully developed hardware-heavy technologies of the last 50 years, namely the solar and the automobile industries. Both technologies have had radically different commercialization pathways, and offer important insights on facilitating and accelerating the development of novel CO<sub>2</sub> utilization technologies to meet critically relevant climate targets.</p>