We have a funny habit us humans. Whenever we encounter a problem in our lives we endeavour to fix the problem indirectly. We hardly ever try to tackle the cause of the problem, instead we try to find a cure. This enables the cause to be allowed to carry on causing the same problems! But it's seems this one time we may have actually come up with a good cure. Bare with me......
Leading researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have come up with a way of extracting the CO2 among other harmful chemicals out of the air, and creating a much cleaner, purer air for us lovely people to enjoy. That's all very well, but what happens to all those chemicals they pull out of the air? No, they don't get dumped into see, or blown into space they get recycled into a usable car fuel, silly. Using specialised electrochemical seperation methods this process is clean, non harmful and ready for finalised testing. So in theory your cars can run on air!
There are still some questions to be answered, like does the electricity and chemicals used for the electrochemical process really provide that much benefit? If this really does work, then the company who is set to run the project would be in it's best interests to keep CO2 levels as high as possible so that extraction of the chemicals can be withdrawn easier. If for instance this managed to produce a 10% reduction in Global CO2 levels over the next 10 years then it would extract 10% less chemicals for it to sell as fuel?
It sounds like this is a very, very interesting and global impacting project. I only hope that it comes to fruition and is managed by someone who has a concious.
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