Solar Nanotube - Making Fuel From CO2
Developments in Nanotechnology continue apace, and a new invention using nanotubes promises an eco-friendly approach to both consume CO2 and produce useful fuel as a bi-product.The device was created at Pennsylvania State University and it's an innovative development of existing tech that uses titanium dioxide nanoparticles and ultraviolet light to convert CO2.When a group of the nanotubes are exposed to sunlight, CO2 and water vapor, the solar energy converts the gasses into a mix of organic compounds like methane, ethane and propane. The process works at a rate as fast as 160 microliters an hour per gram of nanotubes, and that's twenty times faster than previous attempts to convert CO2 in this manner.
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