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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Turning CO2 Directly into Transport Fuels

Turning CO2 Directly into Transport Fuels

A team of researchers at the University of Georgia, USA, have developed a new method that can turn CO2, which exists in the atmosphere and is a major cause for the global warming that is starting to noticeably affect the planet, into useful products such as chemicals and fuel.Michael Adams, a member of UGA’s Bioenergy Systems Research Institute, explained that they have created “a microorganism that does with carbon dioxide exactly what plants do; absorb it and generate something useful.”Plants are unable to turn carbon from the…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Turning-CO2-Directly-into-Transport-Fuels.html

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