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Like most good things, Air Co. vodka was stumbled upon accidentally. Stafford Sheehan, one of the two founders of the company, was a chemist working on artificial photosynthesis when he invented a box that could electrolyze carbon dioxide and water, creating renewable fuel made from air. One of the fuels he was making was ethanol (alcohol). He began to distill the ethanol and drink it with the other scientists in the lab as a joke.
When Sheehan met Greg Constantine, who was then working as a music promoter for Smirnoff, the vodka label, Constantine thought that Sheehan's joke was much more than that. The pair realized that with a few tweaks, they could turn the ethanol into something that people would pay good money for: a high-end vodka that is made by sucking greenhouse gases out of the air.
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The pair developed a patented distilling process that uses just carbon dioxide and water, completely skipping the traditional distilling process, to make smooth vodka. The machine is also run on solar power. Normally, creating a bottle of vodka created 13 pounds of greenhouse gases. Air Co. vodka removes a pound of carbon - the equivalent of the daily carbon intake of eight trees - from the atmosphere with every bottle produced.
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Although the company is only a few months old, it has already won awards from NASA and the United Nations for it's distilling technology, which actively fights climate change. OK, so we know that this vodka is good for the Earth, but how does it taste? The peeps over at Wired did a taste test, and found it to be "sweet and slightly viscous." Sounds good to us.
So, this vodka, which costs $65 for a 750 ml bottle, not only saves the world, but also tastes good. Screw morning lattes, from now on I'm having morning martinis instead.
This Company Makes Carbon Neutral Vodka From Air
Most people love getting drunk, and most people love doing something good for the environment. What if we could unify these two good things to make a killer combination? That's exactly what Air Co. did, creating vodka literally out of air, water and sun - and it happens to be carbon negative too. Now you have no excuse to not drink vodka every day.
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