Solar Panels Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Alternative Fuel Formic Acid
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 20:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Research into mitigating potential global warming caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide usually involves three areas: Developing alternative energy sources, capturing and storing greenhouse gases, and repurposing excess greenhouse gases. Carbon storage will never happen, we can't even store nuclear waste in what science determined was the safest place on earth, but those other two are still possible. Liquid Light Inc. of Monmouth Junction, N.J., got together with Andrew Bocarsly, a Princeton professor of chemistry, to devise an efficient method for harnessing sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into a potential alternative fuel known as formic acid. read more