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Georgia Tech has a cool idea: they want to capture carbon emissions in a car, and recycle it into new fuel not based on petroleum.  Existent sequestration techniques don't address physically small sources of carbon emissions - but these sources apparently account for two-thirds of global carbon emissions.

In the first stage of the project, carbon will be captured on-board from conventional fuels.  When you refuel, you drop off the accumulated carbon gunge.  That is then shipped to a processing station to be turned into a new fuel.  Eventually, when the system ramps up, there'll be enough synthetic fuel that fossil fuels won't be needed.

What I like about this is the systems view.  It's also interesting that they put the sequestration machinery at the source - the car.  I also like their two-stage approach, which will help adoption.  I think one of the publications pertaining to this is here.  The original article I read is here.