Converting CO2 into usable energy

[rangerrebew]

Converting CO2 into usable energy
March 1, 2018, Brookhaven National Laboratory
 

Imagine if carbon dioxide (CO2) could easily be converted into usable energy. Every time you breathe or drive a motor vehicle, you would produce a key ingredient for generating fuels. Like photosynthesis in plants, we could turn CO2 into molecules that are essential for day-to-day life. Now, scientists are one step closer.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are part of a scientific collaboration that has identified a new electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO2 to carbon monoxide (CO), a highly energetic molecule. Their findings were published on Feb. 1 in Energy & Environmental Science.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-co2-usable-energy.html#jCp

[rangerrebew]

Cool!  Lets take CO2 out of the air and show those green plants they don't need it for photosynthesis. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

If the hue and cry that CO2 is a poison to the atmosphere is bad, just wait until we release CO into the atmosphere/

[Joe Wooten]

If the hue and cry that CO2 is a poison to the atmosphere is bad, just wait until we release CO into the atmosphere/

Yeah, CO is truly a poison gas.