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Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide (news.mit.edu)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So they expect home users to handle liquid potassium or sodium formate? Isn't that quite hazardous?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Well, yes and no. Most likely its adoption would be where petroleum stations start creating it on site and selling like a carbon neutral gasoline. Energy has to come from somewhere, so it will probably take solar power to store as fomate and sell as fuel

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