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Letter: Defossilised polyester needs hot and dirty gases

Published 26 February 2025

From Charlie Wartnaby, Cambridge, UK

LanzaTech’s fermentation process to make “defossilised” polyester appears to need more reactive inputs, which is why it favours hot blast furnace exhaust that contains carbon monoxide and hydrogen, as well as carbon dioxide, rather than the cool, pure, waste CO2 streams that reader Dave Covell suggested (Letters, 1 February).

Issue no. 3532 published 1 March 2025

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