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Scientific Breakthrough: Researchers accidentally turn carbon dioxide into ethanol

22 October 2016 Leave a Comment

“They basically put a genie back in its bottle.

“Science has a long and storied history of looking for one thing but finding something better instead. Penicillin, radioactivity, science boxes…I mean microwave ovens — all of these discoveries came in the the search for something else. On Monday, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee announced that they too had unintentionally discovered something incredible: a means of transforming carbon dioxide directly into ethanol using a single catalyst.

“Were this technology ramped up for commercial or municipal use, it could provide a viable alternative for utility-scale batteries, like the one’s Tesla sells. That is, in times of excess energy production from renewable resources, rather than store that electricity in a giant battery, we could instead convert it to ethanol and use that to power generators when renewable sources aren’t producing. Plus it would be carbon neutral since the carbon dioxide generated from burning the ethanol would be reclaimed by the catalytic process.”

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