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ACS Meeting Symposium Focuses on Conversion and Utilization of CO2 for Fuels and Chemicals

Green Car Congress

CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. Earlier post.) They obtained CO 2 conversions of up to 45% are obtained for a residence time of ~ 1 s.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

For natural gas, it is the world’s second largest producer , behind the United States and ahead of Iran, and its largest exporter. The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture.

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