Forbes
Summary
Next-gen materials companies offer the promise of environmental impact reduction, but due to their infancy and new raw inputs, data to quantify this is lacking. One company looking raise the bar on impact data is Spinnova.
Where Spinnova’s carbon footprint is 1.28 kg CO2e/kg fiber, its handprint is a net reduction of 6.5kg CO2e/kg of fiber produced, concluding that its production saves more CO2 emissions than it emits. How is this possible? Energy diversion is the key: carbon-neutral surplus heat is the only by-product of Spinnova’s first commercial factory. When this surplus is reused in the local district heating network it saves 3.2 kg CO2e/kg of emissions that would otherwise be produced in generating district heat. This, combined with more than 3kg CO2e/kg efficiencies in the fiber processing, spinning, and drying results in the output being deemed ‘climate positive’.
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