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SpiralWave’s pulsing plasma towers transform carbon dioxide into liquid fuel


If there’s anything that came from one of the worlds that was promised to us in "Back to the Future" or "The Jetsons" or innumerable other sci-fi

If there’s anything that came from one of the worlds that was promised to us in “Back to the Future” or “The Jetsons” or innumerable other sci-fi franchises, it’s what SpiralWave co-founder and CEO Abed Bukhari showed me on a video call. Purple-tinged waves of white plasma rhythmically rose and vanished within a metal-screened column, igniting in time with metronomic clicks coming from elsewhere in the chemistry kit. After building a small prototype to prove the concept, he met his co-founder, Adam Awad, then a student at Santa Clara University, and the two founded SpiralWave.

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