In an interview with CNN Sustainability the professor of the department of botany at the University of São Paulo Marcos Buckeridge spoke about the energy transition and oil production in Brazil. According to him, “we can’t get out of oil at once.”
The teacher even made an analogy with the speed of a vehicle. “It’s as if you have in your car 150 km/he you will stop at once, you will cross the windshield.”
According to the teacher, one of the strategies of the energy transition is bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCs).
“You produce bioenergy from sugarcane, for example, but there on the side of the plant, you take all the CO2 that is produced during the process and you bury this CO2 at three or four kilometers deep. There, CO2 is in a super critical state, which is like a liquid, or it mineralizes, it reacts with the rocks and is stored down.”
This carbon capture and storage system (CCs) is being studied worldwide. “When I along with CCS to bioenergy, this has a potential to lead, for example, our ethanol to have not a negative emission.”
The teacher also emphasizes that other materials are also made of oil, so energy transition not only involves fuels.
“At the Center for Synthetic Biology and Systems, we have bacteria that produce plastics within cells and we can extract this plastic. We will gradually replace.”
This content was originally published in an expert: “we can’t get out of oil at once” on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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