"SpaceX is starting a program to remove Co2 from the atmosphere and turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if you are interested."
Elon Musk tweets it, adding in a second twitter that it is "also important for Mars".
Carbon dioxide is responsible for most of the greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate emergency.
Just yesterday, the billionaire was named by Time person of the year as "the man who aspires to save the planet and give us another one where we can live". "Clown, genius, contrarian, industrialist, showman. A crazy hybrid of Thomas Edison, PT Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan": this is how the American magazine defined the "visionary" CEO of Tesla and Space X who has won the cover of the magazine in the year in which its automotive giant became the most valued in the world, beating Ford and GM combined in terms of market value.
Since 1927, when the choice fell on the lone flyer over the Atlantic, Time celebrates the most significant person or concept of the year.
And Musk, with his adventures in orbit that "resurrected the moribund American space industry", is "the direct heir".