Jan 062008
Imagine sicking in the CO2 emissions from auto exhuast or a coal fired plant and converting it back into Gasoline? That’s just the sort of blue sky thinking being pursued at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. And, by the way, they use sunlight to do it.
Makes my brain hurt just thinking about it.
So far it’s only been demonstrated in laboratory environments and large scale commercialization is still a decade or so away. But the possibilities are intriguing. For one thing, if such a process were in place, you could literally buy yourself carbon offsets by buying tyour share of time on a CO2 recylcling process!