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Reuse of CO2 to Cut Metal: Sustainable Design or Greenwashing?

The 2nd Annual High School Climate Change Symposium was hosted over Zoom Webinar from the Battle Creek Area Mathematics and Science Center on February 20, 2021 by a group of students who want to expand climate change education and action.

Traditional metalworking fluids pollute the environment and cause health risks to machinists. We can harness waste CO2 to eliminate these problems. But do we, while we recycle CO2, create bigger problems than those being eliminated?
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Steve Skerlos is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (2000) and his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors (1994), both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 2000. Professor Skerlos is known as a scholar in the field of sustainable design focusing on technology policy in product design, manufacturing, and utility infrastructure. Professor Skerlos is Chief Technology Officer of Fusion Coolant Systems, a company that has developed gas-based coolants and lubricants for manufacturing. Professor Skerlos was faculty inventor and founder of Accuri Cytometers, now part of BD, which was acquired for $205M in 2011. Professor Skerlos is the Director of Sustainability Education Programs in the College of Engineering, Director of the Program in Sustainable Engineering, and is Faculty Director for the UM Center for Socially Engaged Design. He serves on the Executive Committee of the UM Graham Sustainability Institute. In addition to technology innovations, his research has yielded significant implications for policy – such as warning early-on that increases to Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards would not stem the trend towards larger vehicles and more recently establishing climate action timeframes within specific industrial sectors.