Demonstrating a CO2 Recycler
Sandia scientists successfully test a machine that creates fuel from carbon dioxide.
Note from IR2: A closed system that addresses multiple issues! Creating energy and decreasing CO2. I’d love more people thinking this way.
By Tyler Hamilton
Technology Review
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully demonstrated a prototype machine that uses the sun’s energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into the molecular building blocks that make up transportation fuels. The “Sunshine to Petrol” system could ultimately prove a practical way to recycle CO? from power and industrial plants into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, assuming the process can become at least twice as efficient as natural photosynthesis.
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