Mantra Sees Future In Recycling CO2

By Deirdre Brennan -- A new technology being developed in Canada has the potential to revolutionize the lifecycle of carbon dioxide. 

Venture capital group Mantra, which invests in renewable energy and environmentally friendly technologies, has developed a chemical process that turns CO2 into an organic acid with various industrial uses. While this sounds like a magical process akin to spinning straw into gold, the new technology—dubbed the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, or ERC—is very real.