A
new material made from microscopic layers of cobalt can convert carbon
dioxide gas into formate - a fuel that can be burned with no toxic
byproducts and used as a clean energy source.
Developed
by a team of researchers in China, the material could be one way to
deal with the 36 gigatonnes of CO2 we release into the atmosphere each
year due to fossil fuel use. Scientists have been struggling for decades
to come up with an energy-efficient way to transform CO2 into something
useful, and early testing points to this new material as being one of
the most promising options we’ve seen so far.
