World's largest steel company to use rabbit gut microbe to cut emissions

LanzaTech technology will be installed at ArcelorMittal's steel mill in Ghent, using a microbe to turn carbon monoxide into ethanol fuel

The world's largest steel producer is planning to spend a87m to use a microbe originally found in a rabbit's gut to turn a waste gas that contributes to global warming into fuel.

Bioengineering company LanzaTech's technology will be installed at ArcelorMittal's steel mill in Ghent, Belgium, with the customised Clostridium microbe capturing carbon monoxide and converting it into ethanol.