{"id":29368,"date":"2016-08-25T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-solve-puzzle-of-converting-gaseous-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:20:52","slug":"scientists-solve-puzzle-of-converting-gaseous-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-solve-puzzle-of-converting-gaseous-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-solve-puzzle-of-converting-gaseous-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming \u2014 and quite likely our own eventual extinction \u2014 by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from the University of Toronto (U of T) believes they\u2019ve found a way to convert all these emissions into energy-rich fuel in a carbon-neutral cycle that uses a very abundant natural resource: silicon. Silicon, readily available in sand, is the seventh most-abundant element in the universe and the second most-abundant element in the earth\u2019s crust.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of converting <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+dioxide+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide emissions<\/a> to energy isn\u2019t new: there\u2019s been a global race to discover a material that can efficiently convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water or hydrogen to fuel for decades. However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+stability\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical stability<\/a> of carbon dioxide has made it difficult to find a practical solution.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-scientists-puzzle-gaseous-carbon-dioxide.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-scientists-puzzle-gaseous-carbon-dioxide.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming \u2014 and quite likely our own eventual extinction \u2014 by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A team of scientists from the University of Toronto (U of T) believes they\u2019ve found a way to convert all these emissions into energy-rich fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1497,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-energy","category-existential-risks","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368","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=29368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66437,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions\/66437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}