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Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide (news.mit.edu)

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Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide::An efficient new process can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That it burns the shit back into the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but if it could provide as an alternative to digging up oil and gass, and get the energy needed to make the transformation from sun, wind or other sustainable sources. It could lower the amount of new CO2 being put into the atmosphere as well as work as a way to store excess energy from wind and sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it would basically act as a battery except much better energy and power density, and faster 'charging'.

The downside is invariably that round trip energy efficiency (electricity in vs electricity out) is somewhere between 'much worse' and 'terrible'.