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.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
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.
Sure, soda pop and beer.
“Ya mean I can drink CO2?”
do you drink any carbonated sodas now? if so, you are drinking CO2 in the fizz.
The same group of “scientists” that came up with the E-CAT, Cold Fusion tomorrow, etc.?
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.
“Ya mean I can drink CO2?”
Plants crave it.
Good.
Now maybe corn and meat prices will fall because all that grain isn’t going into ethanol production.
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.
Cheers!
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.
No only is ethanol bait, it ruins ever small engine it touches. My boat motor repair buddy shuns it as well.
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