An efficient new process can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity.
  • nick@midwest.social
    166·
    1 year ago

    Next weeks news: same engineers mysteriously all committed suicide by two bullets to the back of each of their heads. Big oil has no comment.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I am concerned about the growing mountain of miracle devices that are meant to solve climate change, and the environmental effects said mountain is having on climate change.

  • Bernie EcclestonedEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    So they expect home users to handle liquid potassium or sodium formate? Isn’t that quite hazardous?

    • AdminWorker@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Well, yes and no. Most likely its adoption would be where petroleum stations start creating it on site and selling like a carbon neutral gasoline. Energy has to come from somewhere, so it will probably take solar power to store as fomate and sell as fuel