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3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A brewer makes adjustments to the Earthly Labs carbon-capture unit, which purifies carbon dioxide from the beer brewing process for use in carbonation. In 2021, Maine Beer Company’s carbon dioxide supplier ran short on carbon dioxide.
The solution the company settled on originated on Mars — or more specifically, in NASA’s plans for harvesting resources from the Red Planet. Now it’s saving money and reducing emissions for wineries, distilleries, power companies, helium producers, and more.
These capabilities weren’t entirely new, but Pioneer’s systems were compact, efficient, and automated. Later, Pioneer Astronautics founder Robert Zubrin created Pioneer Energy to rearrange these subsystems into technology for the oil and gas industry (Spinoff 2015 , 2020 ).
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