Researchers have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, in a world-first breakthrough that could transform our approach to carbon capture and storage.
The research team led by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new technique that can efficiently convert CO2 from a gas into solid particles of carbon.
Published in the journal Nature Communications, the research offers an alternative pathway for safely and permanently removing the greenhouse gas from our atmosphere.
Current technologies for carbon capture and storage focus on compressing CO2 into a liquid form, transporting it to a suitable site and injecting it underground.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 28 2019, @06:28PM
Cheap Fusion: solves everything. We can start farming in underground warrens, go massively multi-level and expand the land surface of the Earth by a factor of 100. Of course, with exponential population growth that doesn't even take us to the year 4000 before we're f-ed again.
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