{"id":200292,"date":"2024-11-27T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/off-the-shelf-thermoelectric-generators-can-upgrade-co2-into-chemicals-the-combination-could-help-us-colonize-mars"},"modified":"2024-11-27T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:22:24","slug":"off-the-shelf-thermoelectric-generators-can-upgrade-co2-into-chemicals-the-combination-could-help-us-colonize-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/off-the-shelf-thermoelectric-generators-can-upgrade-co2-into-chemicals-the-combination-could-help-us-colonize-mars","title":{"rendered":"Off-the-shelf thermoelectric generators can upgrade CO2 into chemicals. The combination could help us colonize Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/off-the-shelf-thermoelectric-generators-can-upgrade-co2-into-chemicals-the-combination-could-help-us-colonize-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest temperature differences can power CO<strong><sub>2<\/sub><\/strong> conversion, according to a proof-of-concept study by chemists at the University of British Columbia (UBC).<\/p>\n<p>The findings open up the intriguing possibility that the temperature differentials encountered in an array of environments\u2014from a typical geothermal installation on Earth to the cold, desolate surface of Mars\u2014could power the conversion of CO<strong><sub>2<\/sub><\/strong> into a range of useful fuels and chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe environment on Mars really got me interested in the long-term potential of this technology combination,\u201d says Dr. Abhishek Soni, postdoctoral research fellow at UBC and first author of the paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.device.2024.100603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Device<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest temperature differences can power CO2 conversion, according to a proof-of-concept study by chemists at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The findings open up the intriguing possibility that the temperature differentials encountered in an array of environments\u2014from a typical geothermal installation on Earth to the cold, desolate surface [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}