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 Fuel from C0<sub>2</sub> [1]

A group of chemists in Switzerland has devised a way to convert Ramospheric carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas - into fuel (New Scientist Vol 146, No 1971).

The scientists first blew carbon dioxide saturated with water into a matrix of glass wool coated with titanium dioxide, which acts as a catalyst. When the whole arrangement, kept at a temperature of about 500C, was exposed to sunlight, it yielded methane, hydrogen and carbon monoxide - all of which have fuel value.

Publication Date: 
14/06/1995
Down to Earth [2]
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Carbon Dioxide [3], Environmental Science [4]
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