Revolutionary Electrolyzer Efficiently Converts CO2 into Renewable Propane Fuel

https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/22/revolutionary-electrolyzer-efficiently-converts-co2-into-renewable-propane-fuel/

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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5 Comments

raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Apetitenevermind@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I was walking through canadain tire, while looking for "propane and propane accessories" and said just that. There was another person who I heard chuckle as we crossed paths, they knew whats up. Was it you by chance?

raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

Negative, lo sorrio

cheeseburger@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I hope this can be a consumer product I could use to trickle charge my propane tanks. $33 to refill a 20lb tank is killing me.

lvxferre@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

I hope so, too, but I don't think that it will. Odds are that the process requires a higher concentration of CO₂ than just the 0.4% in atmospheric air, so this would be only viable in industrial plants - specially the ones producing steel and quicklime.

Another concern that I have is that the process likely requires hydrogen.