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Can we make things out of captured carbon?

CrowdScience investigates some surprising uses for carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide emissions are the main contributor to global warming. Capturing it and burying it is one method for reducing the impact of climate change. But can you do anything else with the carbon? That鈥檚 what this week鈥檚 CrowdScience listener would like to know - can you actually make things out of it that we could actually use? And is that as beneficial for the environment as burying it? Alex Lathbridge talks to the scientists and inventors to find out.

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27 minutes

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Fri 20 Nov 2026 20:32GMT

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