Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTCBB: CABN) is developing a breakthrough technology for transforming harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the basic fuel building blocks required to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other portable fuels.

In September 2008, CABN announced this innovative new technology at the First International Summit on Policy, Technology and Investment, hosted by Cambridge University. CABN’s CEO described the Company’s program to use CO2 as a feedstock for producing portable fuels and simultaneously address the world’s energy and environmental challenges. CABN’s CO2-to-fuel technology takes CO2 from coal-fired power plants and other large CO2 emitters and transforms it into portable fuels.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, low cost fossil fuels such as oil and coal have powered the world’s economic growth. Today, industrialization has accelerated on a global scale and the world is consuming more fossil fuel than ever before. Demand for depleting fossil fuel resources has driven the price of energy to previously unimagined levels and in the process released billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that global energy consumption will increase 50% by 2030 to over 112 million barrels of crude oil per day; nearing a critical point many energy analysts call Peak Oil. This dual crisis of energy depletion and climate change threatens living standards and the security of nations.

The world is highly dependent on the existing transportation and fuel delivery infrastructure. Automobiles, trucks, trains and planes powered by portable fuels are crucial to our way of life. Alternative fuel technologies being developed by others such as fuel cells and hydrogen will require substantial infrastructure changes to be deployed on a large scale. CABN’s technology, which transforms harmful byproducts of fossil fuel usage (CO2) into additional usable fuel, holds tremendous potential since it reduces harmful CO2 emissions while creating fuel that can be distributed through the existing infrastructure. CABN’s solution simultaneously addresses the problems of sustainable fuel supplies and climate stability.

Working prototype
The Company just announced the completion of its highly anticipated prototype, engineered to demonstrate CABN’s proprietary biocatalytic CO2-to-fuel process.

Applying CABN’s patent-pending technology in a laboratory scale prototype, the Company has successfully transformed a stream of CO2 gas into methanol fuel. The demonstration prototype uses Carbon Sciences’ innovative biocatalytic process to break down CO2 and water, then combines the carbon and hydrogen to form methanol, a low level liquid fuel. The resulting methanol is directly usable as a fuel, or it can be used to build higher-level fuels such as gasoline, butanol and jet fuel. The Company is in the process of designing and developing expanded biocatalytic process technologies to create these higher-level fuels from CO2.

Patent Application
After successfully completing technology design and simulations, CABN submitted a patent application, “A Biocatalytic Process and System to Transform Carbon Dioxide into Methanol” to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on February 17, 2009.

National media coverage
The Company’s CO2-to-fuel technology has been recognized in the national media. In a recent article in USA Today, author Paul Davidson recognized Carbon Sciences as “running ahead” of all other CO2-to-fuel technologies and included the following graphic illustrating the process: