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Old 08-13-2020, 02:23 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

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Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

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A research team, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with Northern Illinois University, has discovered a new electrocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into ethanol with very high energy efficiency, high selectivity for the desired final product and low cost. Ethanol is a particularly desirable commodity because it is an ingredient in nearly all U.S. gasoline and is widely used as an intermediate product in the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.

“The process resulting from our catalyst would contribute to the circular carbon economy, which entails the reuse of carbon dioxide,” said Di-Jia Liu, senior chemist in Argonne’s Chemical Sciences and Engineering division and a UChicago CASE scientist in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago. This process would do so by electrochemically converting the CO2 emitted from industrial processes, such as fossil fuel power plants or alcohol fermentation plants, into valuable commodities at reasonable cost.

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It would be funny if this turns out to be more efficient than the single digit hydrogen cycle efficiency
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I discovered away turn atmosphere carbon dioxide into liquid fertilizer with solar power purely by accident and it's incredibly efficient.

You know what's not very high efficiency, extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.

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