Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

MIT Technology Review by Duncan Graham-Rowe | Dec. 17, 2007 (News Report)

Could concentrated solar energy be used to reverse combustion and convert carbon dioxide back into gasoline? That's what scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, NM, aim to find out by building a novel reactor that can chemically "reenergize" carbon dioxide. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Mike LaBonte - Dec 17, 2007 - 1:24 PM PST
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Mike LaBonte
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 by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 1, 2008

This has the feel of a premature scientific revelation, the kind that usually turns out not to be true. The writing is appropriately cautious.

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