May

17

Making the Artificial Leaf Into a Forest

May 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis.  The scientists have taken the “artificial leaf” as the popular term for such a system, to success as an “artificial forest.” The DOE is under pressure politically as the climate crowd is [...]

Apr

10

Using CO2 Over and Over and Over

April 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Wojciech Lipiński, Dr. Sc.Techn, said at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) of recycling carbon dioxide (CO2), “It may seem like trying to put the genie back into the bottle. But it already has been proven with laboratory scale equipment. The process uses three of the worlds most abundant and [...]

Mar

8

Electro Catalytic Action Turns CO2 Back Into Hydrocarbon

March 8, 2013 | 2 Comments

In a stunning development scientists at the University of Granada have a developed a carbon gel that enables carbon dioxide to be turned into hydrocarbons using a novel electro-catalytic process. After more than 10 years’ work researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have developed a new material using doped carbon that allows low-cost fuel [...]

Dec

7

Could Synthetic Fuel End U.S. Need for Crude Oil?

December 7, 2012 | 1 Comment

A team of Princeton researchers led by Christodoulos Floudas, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, evaluated scenarios in which the United States could power its vehicles with synthetic fuels rather than relying on oil.  The team’s conclusion is the U. S. could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination [...]

Sep

25

An Almost Endless Fuel Supply

September 25, 2012 | 10 Comments

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas (H2) from seawater.  Then they catalytically convert the CO2 and H2 into jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. The NRL effort has successfully developed and demonstrated technologies for the recovery of the CO2 and [...]

Jun

14

A New CO2 to Fuel Process

June 14, 2012 | 2 Comments

At the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMR) a research team led by the chemist Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing has developed a new system for producing methanol that uses CO2 and hydrogen. Substituting methanol can for example, be used as an environmentally friendly alternative for gasoline.  The FMR team’s goal is to harness the power of [...]

Jun

4

Organic Molecules From Carbon Dioxide Using Uranium

June 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

University of Nottingham School of Chemistry scientists have developed a recyclable system for converting carbon monoxide (CO) directly into more complicated organic molecules using depleted uranium.  This is a very large concept taking a bold step into making use of used uranium and making complex molecules – some are thinking it could be used to [...]

Oct

12

Industrial Waste Gas to Jet Fuel

October 12, 2011 | 6 Comments

Waste gases emitted by blast furnaces, coke ovens and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) operations can now be converted into low-cost ethanol and high-value chemicals.  The new fuel production process recycles waste gases that would otherwise be oxidized further to carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere. Britain’s Virgin Atlantic Airline announced the development of a [...]

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