With the rising amount of greenhouse gases in the environment, issues like global warming and climate change are also increasing. To counter this problem, researchers at the Viterbi School Of Engineering envisions a power plant that will suck all the greenhouse gases from the environment and convert it into usable fuel. They are calling it a carbon-neutral closed loop.
According to the researchers, the process of converting carbon dioxide into fuel involves turning the carbon dioxide from carbon-oxygen bonds to carbon-hydrogen bonds. They are turning the carbon dioxide back into hydrocarbons.
However, the method that they used is much more energy-efficient as it uses a millifluidic reactor process. This is a very small scale chemical reactor system which has a minimal environmental footprint.
