A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production
Carbon. The stuff that prefers to be in a gaseous & bound form to do heat house effect, which we take out of the ground where it got to in times with significant warmer global climate.
It’s still in the world, instead of a hole in the ground, and will go CO² the next opportunity.
This is the problem with oil; no matter what steps you do inbetween (be it fuel or plastic, or recycling/processing the plastic), it will still accelerate climate warming in the end.
Better than letting the plastic pile up.
But the C doesn’t disappear.
Oh noes not the C!
What is “the C”? In this context
Carbon. The stuff that prefers to be in a gaseous & bound form to do heat house effect, which we take out of the ground where it got to in times with significant warmer global climate.
According to the original paper, the C goes into “value-added organics such as formate, acetate, glycolate and glycolaldehyde dimer.”
So specifically not carbon dioxide, which is the problem gas.
It’s still in the world, instead of a hole in the ground, and will go CO² the next opportunity.
This is the problem with oil; no matter what steps you do inbetween (be it fuel or plastic, or recycling/processing the plastic), it will still accelerate climate warming in the end.