Weekly Article - Carbon Dioxide Could Be Part Of The Solution To All Our Problems!

So currently across the world there are many different groups of people who are attempting to find a solution to the planets need for fuel. Bio-fuels and other non-carbon based fuels such as solar and wind turbines are currently leading the field but these neglect the problem of the excess CO2 and they all have limitations such as the need for sunlight or wind.

Another method which bypasses these problems is to use CO2 are the raw materials and create fuel. We have been capable of creating fuel from CO2 for well over 20 years now (see link 1) but the ability to do so is not the problem. The issue arises with practicality of the process, previously the energetic costs of the fuels creation, to be a viable option it needs to provide as close to the amount of energy you put in as possible and the source energy needs to be abundant.

This latest article claims that they have created a new method which uses a synthetic leaf to create fuel from CO2 and sunlight and more importantly they claim that the process is cost effective unlike previous methods.

Check out these links

1 - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/turning-carbon-dioxide-back-into-fuel/

2 - http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0801/Scientists-flip-energy-equation-with-solar-leaf-that-converts-CO2-into-fuel

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