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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon Demand is set to rocket as costs continue to fall The Economist Business 15 August, 2024 | 964 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ In a suburban car park near Seattle Bill Gates recently posed for an unusual photo shoot. Sporting a high-vis jacket and safety boots, the billionaire philanthropist shovelled asphalt from a wheelbarrow into a pothole. Mr Gates was there to tout his investment in a company involved in “carbon utilisation”, a neglected area of climate tech that is heating up. Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air will be a crucial part of efforts to slow climate change. Many projects envisage piping the gas to some form of permanent storage (such as salt caverns). Oil companies, which have experience of pumping CO2 into dwindling wells in order to enhance oil recovery, claim to be keen. But less attention has been paid to the many other commercial possibilities. In t ………………………………