Carbon Dioxide Recycling Makes Waves

摘要

Recycling CO_2 into fuels and chemicals would lessen dependence on fossil fuels and help to mitigate CO_2 emissions. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., Patterson et al. propose that solar methanol islands, man-made oceanic structures that use renewable energy to harvest CO_2 from seawater, perform catalysis, and generate methanol, could provide a new approach to recycling carbon dioxide into liquid fuels.