Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide

Image caption: A schematic shows the formate process. […] Image credit: Shuhan Miao, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Article by David L. Chandler. MIT News – October 30, 2023. Paper: “A carbon-efficient bicarbonate electrolyzer”

The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or power industries.

The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into a stable fuel that can replace fossil fuels in some applications. But most such conversion processes have […]

Click here to view original web page at news.mit.edu

Curated by John Wysocki

See Full Bio