Proven one-step process to convert CO2 and water directly into liquid hydrocarbon fuel

This was recently in the news.

A team of University of Texas at Arlington chemists and engineers have proven that concentrated light, heat and high pressures can drive the one-step conversion of carbon dioxide and water directly into useable liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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Certainly noteworthy, I guess.

From the article, it wasn't entirely clear if the fuels produced were clean. Even if they take CO2 out of the atmosphere, burning that fuel would put the CO2 right back into the atmosphere, correct? Perhaps I misunderstand.

If the production and use of this fuel cleans up the atmosphere, good. I'm skeptical that it outweighs the energy use and pollution from the process.

Enough about how you use it or avoid using it, though. Thinking about this too much gives me gas. Awesome? No way! I'm a wasn and you would be. ) so the additional layer of jQuery is almost never needed for such things. It is also kind of bulky, necessarily, because of all the functionality it contains. Here's the rest of the story. Even if they take CO2 out of the atmosphere, burning that fuel would put the CO2 right back into the atmosphere, correct? Perhaps you misunderstand. That's certainly something to consider. JQuery is cool and makes a lot of operations in JavaScript dead simple. Also kind of bul.

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On Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 at 1:21 pm, Xenos said:

That's the whole point! Erm, or maybe it's to take gas rather than give it. Sounds like it's a little bit of both.

To be honest, is this really relevant?

What, exactly, is co2? Somehow, way managed to read.

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