Thursday, September 23, 2010

Fuel from Carbon Dioxide??

What if there was a way to use our environmental output hazards, carbon dioxide, and reuse it in a cycle that utilizes it to make fuel?

This is a very interesting concept and one that may give the solution to the reduction if not elimination of fossil fuels for energy. By using alternatives such as water and wind powered generators, this energy can be used to fuel the reaction to make the carbon dioxide fuse with hydrogen to produce usable gasoline for everyday life. However, the most promising elements that can be an important ingredient to fuel these reactions is solar power. The sun is always present and is constantly being supplied unlike limited conditions to generators such as windmills. Arun Majumdar presents his view:
Turning CO2 into fuels is exactly what photosynthetic organisms have been doing for billions of years, although their fuels tend to be foods, like sugars. Now humans are trying to store the energy in sunlight by making a liquid fuel from CO2 and hydrogen—a prospect that could recycle CO2 emissions and slow down the rapid buildup of such greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
With these possibly viable sources of "new technologies get commercialized, those jobs always end up in the U.S." as Alan Weimer theorizes.
 
 

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