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
    8•7 months 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]English
    7•7 months 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
    3•7 months ago

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

    • @AdminWorker@lemmy.ca
      5•7 months 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

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      12•7 months ago

      If you recycle existing carbon from the atmosphere then you’re not adding more carbon. So, in that sense it’s better.