The Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is trying to create an invention that would carry out the reverse of combustion, by using solar energy to chemically re-energize carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into carbon monoxide. The prototype, which is called Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator, was designed to break a carbon-oxygen bond in the carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide and oxygen. This invention was designed to help recycle carbon dioxide into fuels and will result in fossil fuels being used at least twice. By doing this, less carbon dioxide will be put into the atmosphere and the amount of fossil fuels that are pulled out of the ground will be reduced.
By creating this device, not only do I believe our atmosphere would be cleaner, but this invention would also help to provide more fuel for our vehicles.
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June 1st, 2008 by ytingdj · 1 Comment · Chemistry
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The reuse of fossil fuels would be very essential towards fuel economy, thus lowering the price towards fossil fuels, such as gasoline, diesel and oil. I dont think that the atmosphere would be cleaner, it is too messed up to be fixed, the holes in the ozone layer grow larger every year. To recycle carbon dioxide into fuels does not really make sense, how will you get a solid out of a gas? Loopholes in your post make this seem almost unbelievable.