Nov. 13, 2009 (PR Newswire) — SEATTLE, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (’Mantra’, OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV), developer of the revolutionary carbon recycling ERC technology, was featured in the Fourth Quarter 2009 edition of District Energy Magazine (District Energy). The article, entitled “Carbon Recycling: An alternative to carbon capture and storage,” takes a closer look at the current economic, regulatory and legal challenges facing carbon capture and storage (CCS), and offers some insight as to the potential advantages of carbon recycling over CCS.

Rowan Oloman, author of the article and freelance writer of Vancouver, B.C., notes: “Several massive hurdles still stand in the way of full-scale CCS deployment. U.K. consulting firm McKinsey figures that adding CCS to the next generation of European power plants could lift their price by up to $1.3 billion each.” While this cost barrier is a significant deterrent to widespread adoption of

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Carbon Sciences Inc. had its revolutionary carbon dioxide (CO2) to fuel transformation technology profiled in the power generation industries’ most widely read weekly periodical, Power Engineering Magazine (PEM), on Oct. 27.

Harnessing the power of specific microorganisms which use enzymes to transform CO2 from the environment into fuel via a bio-catalytic process, CABN has developed a proprietary methodology by which this normally costly (in terms of energy) process – using enzymes which degrade rapidly – can be brought to an industrial scale at lower energy cost, while extending the lifecycle of the enzymes that do all the heavy lifting.

The proprietary methodology developed by CABN consists of enzyme encapsulation, allowing for the enzymes to run many more cycles before dying. Because the cost of enzymes is the key factor in making such technology commercially viable, this groundbreaking capability developed by CABN represents a major leap forward. By extending the number

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Earlier last week, cement maker CEMEX, S.A. de C.V. (CX), was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop technology for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions at one of Cemex’s U.S. cement plants. CEMEX will work with RTI International and others to design a dry sorbent Carbon dioxide capture and compression system, a pipeline (if necessary), and an injection station. This commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) demonstration project may remove up to 1 million ton of Carbon dioxide annually. Only 12 CCS projects from industrial sources, including cement plants, chemical plants, paper mills, refineries, and manufacturing facilities across the United States were selected for the first phase of DOE funding. Cemex USA is the only cement company in America to receive funding for a large-scale industrial CCS project. The CCS projects are cost-shared collaboration between the government and ...

Sep. 30, 2009 (PR Newswire) — VANCOUVER, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (’Mantra’, OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV) is pleased to announce that it has just signed its second Contribution Agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) in support of its Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) technology.

Mantra received its first contribution from NRC-IRAP in April 2009 with the purpose of establishing the technical basis for electro-reduction of carbon dioxide to formate using Mantra’s ERC technology. Mantra’s technology has advanced significantly since this initial reward, including an increase in efficiency to 89.66% from 46.24% through the use of a new cathode structure. These encouraging improvements, along with Mantra’s continual compliance with program guidelines, contributed to NRC-IRAP’s second financial assistance award.

Over the course of this second project, entitled “Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide Development Project 2,” Mantra’s objective is to explore suitable materials

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