Japan's Tomato Greenhouses Were Burning Kerosene for CO₂. Now They Have DAC.
🌍 From Japan — this story was originally published in Japanese. We’re bridging the language gap because good CDR ideas don’t care about borders. Here’s a fact that might bother you: commercial greenhouses routinely burn kerosene specifically to generate CO₂ for their plants. Not for heat. For the carbon dioxide itself. Plants grow faster with elevated CO₂ levels, so growers literally combust fossil fuels inside their greenhouses to get it. ...