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Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol
Popular Mechanics ^ | October 17, 2016 | Avery Thompson

Posted on 11/25/2016 4:11:06 PM PST by Enchante

Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have discovered a chemical reaction to turn CO2 into ethanol, potentially creating a new technology to help avert climate change. Their findings were published in the journal ChemistrySelect.

The researchers were attempting to find a series of chemical reactions that could turn CO2 into a useful fuel, when they realized the first step in their process managed to do it all by itself. The reaction turns CO2 into ethanol, which could in turn be used to power generators and vehicles.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Technical; US: Iowa; US: Tennessee; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: climate; co2; energy; environment; ethanol; hydrocarbons; iowa; kimreynolds; maga; oakridge; opec; science; tedcruz; tennessee; texas
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To: aquila48

The only saving grace to that low 20% efficiency is that burning Democrat foundation cash is the magic wand in this process giving a 300% efficiency, so by this time next year we will have a world set free of Democrats and gloBULL warming, and about a day’s supply of ethanol.


41 posted on 11/25/2016 7:55:23 PM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Ya mean I can drink CO2?

Sure, soda pop and beer.

42 posted on 11/25/2016 7:56:09 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“Ya mean I can drink CO2?”

do you drink any carbonated sodas now? if so, you are drinking CO2 in the fizz.


43 posted on 11/25/2016 8:00:17 PM PST by IWONDR
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To: Enchante

The same group of “scientists” that came up with the E-CAT, Cold Fusion tomorrow, etc.?


44 posted on 11/25/2016 8:11:04 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: Enchante

When you apply a electrical charge to any carbon structure similar to that plus the copper spheres, there a noticeable Raman Shift pattern. The field emission display technology used the nanotube platform. The elements are all the same. They have discovered something using the same ingredients as others have in the failed nanotube television business. I would like to see some of those now unemployed television scientists give those amateurs a lesson in how to rearrange the structure they are working with.


45 posted on 11/25/2016 8:17:09 PM PST by Scram1
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“Ya mean I can drink CO2?”

Plants crave it.


46 posted on 11/25/2016 8:20:41 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: Enchante

Good.

Now maybe corn and meat prices will fall because all that grain isn’t going into ethanol production.


47 posted on 11/25/2016 8:22:08 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: Enchante

PopMech forgot to include this sentence from the conclusion of the scientific article that their BS is based on:

“The overpotential (which might be lowered with the proper electrolyte, and by separating the hydrogen production to another catalyst) probably precludes economic viability for this catalyst”

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/slct.201601169/full

In other words, just another click-bait article in another BS magazine.


48 posted on 11/25/2016 9:29:48 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Enchante
C02 -> Ethanol

Cheers!

49 posted on 11/26/2016 1:49:47 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: MV=PY

That is the funny part. CO2 could increase 5 or 6 times from where it is now before it becomes toxic to humans st the same time plants would flourish. But if you cut CO2 in half, all life on the planet will cease.


50 posted on 11/26/2016 6:19:42 AM PST by D Rider
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To: agere_contra

No only is ethanol bait, it ruins ever small engine it touches. My boat motor repair buddy shuns it as well.


51 posted on 11/26/2016 6:25:26 AM PST by Quilla
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