Carbon dioxide is currently one of the most abundant greenhouse gases contributing to the issues of global warming and climate change. While researchers have been relatively successful at trapping environmentally-harmful carbon emission from the atmosphere, the problem of storing it safely has continued to plague today's greatest scientific minds. (more…)
A team of scientists has devised a new technology that turns carbon dioxide into a variety of useful chemical substances, while at the same time producing sizeable amounts of electrical energy. Recently published in Science Advances journal, the current research could help reduce environmentally-harmful CO2. At present, techniques for large-scale carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (or…
Recently, we talked about the world’s first porous liquid that, according to scientists, could potentially be used to capture environmentally-harmful carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-based power plants. The innovators at Switzerland-based Climeworks have come up with an equally-ingenious solution, which entails trapping of atmospheric CO2 for commercial uses. The company has developed a highly-specialized system…
Previously, we had talked about how scientists have been able to mimic natural leaves with the artificial end product having the capacity of photosynthesis. Well, this time around, a collaborative effort from the researchers at US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has resulted…
Consuming alcohol causes the enzymes present in our liver to disintegrate the ingested molecules into carbon dioxide, along with a number of other byproducts. With the help of a similar set of enzymes, a team of Austrian scientists are trying to conduct the reverse reaction, in which CO2 is directly converted to alcohol. What makes this…