{"id":21611,"date":"2016-02-04T18:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/how-to-efficiently-convert-carbon-dioxide-from-air-to-methanol-fuel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:00","slug":"how-to-efficiently-convert-carbon-dioxide-from-air-to-methanol-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/how-to-efficiently-convert-carbon-dioxide-from-air-to-methanol-fuel","title":{"rendered":"How to efficiently convert carbon dioxide from air to methanol fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-efficiently-convert-carbon-dioxide-from-air-to-methanol-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Convert carbon dioxide from air (at low temp) to methanol fuel \u2014 why not!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" title=\"Turning air into fuel\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-efficiently-convert-carbon-dioxide-from-air-to-methanol-fuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" \/><b><center>The carbon dioxide-to-methanol process (credit: Surya Prakash)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usc.edu\/dept\/chemistry\/loker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute<\/a> have created fuel out of thin air \u2014 directly converting carbon dioxide from air into methanol at relatively low temperatures for the first time. While methanol can\u2019t currently compete with oil, it will be there when we run out of oil, the researchers note.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers bubbled air through an aqueous solution of pentaethylenehexamine (PEHA), adding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takasago.com\/ja\/business\/pdf\/ligands_catalysts\/1902.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ru-Macho-BH<\/a> ruthenium catalyst to encourage hydrogen to latch onto the CO2 under pressure. They then heated the solution, converting 79 percent of the CO2 into methanol.<\/p>\n<p>Though mixed with water, the resulting methanol can be easily distilled, said <a href=\"http:\/\/chem.usc.edu\/faculty\/Prakash.html\" target=\"_blank\">G.K. Surya Prakash<\/a>, professor of chemistry and director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-efficiently-convert-carbon-dioxide-from-air-to-methanol-fuel?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f7ce847df2-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-f7ce847df2-282205513\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convert carbon dioxide from air (at low temp) to methanol fuel \u2014 why not! The carbon dioxide-to-methanol process (credit: Surya Prakash) Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute have created fuel out of thin air \u2014 directly converting carbon dioxide from air into methanol at relatively low temperatures for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68603,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions\/68603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}