This new material converts CO2 into clean fuel very efficiently
Made of partially oxidized cobalt layers, the material carries out the conversion with a high level of efficiency. Certainly it will be a years-long process before this is worked into a successful, commercial equipment. But at this stage of development, by all conceivable metrics, this reaction looks very positive. Energy generation, manufacturing processes, transportation, etc. The new material is a four-atom thick sandwich of cobalt metal and cobalt-oxygen molecules. As Herkewitz explains, when vibrated with electric current, the material interacts with CO2 molecules running through it....