Converting Carbon Dioxide Into Batteries

[Megalith]

Scientists have figured out one solution to dealing with CO2: converting the gas into a material that may be used to develop lithium-ion batteries that power electric cars and electronics.

The team adapted a solar-powered process that converts carbon dioxide into carbon so that it produces carbon nanotubes and demonstrated that the nanotubes can be incorporated into both lithium-ion batteries like those used in electric vehicles and electronic devices and low-cost sodium-ion batteries under development for large-scale applications, such as the electric grid.

 

[dceremuga]

And then when we have too much oxygen, we will have an ecological disaster :/

 

[bloodhawke83]

And then when we have too much oxygen, we will have an ecological disaster :/

yup, planets need co2.

 

[EchtoGammut]

Yup, but like salt too much of it will kill you or at least seriously f with you.

 

[CaptNumbNutz]

And then when we have too much oxygen, we will have an ecological disaster :/

I seriously doubt this technology could make enough of a difference for there to actually be a decrease in CO2 to the point it would be an issue. In order for it to make that much difference, you would literally have to have CO2 scrubbers on everything from your car's exhaust to factories to equipping most of the world's population with a respirator with this tech. That's what it would take to get to net zero extra CO2 in the air and rewind the clock several thousand years. At most, forcibly equipping every coal factory on the planet might net you a miniscule part of a percentage point difference. While not much, any little change like that would not be detrimental to the current environment.

As far as too much oxygen, life adapts to that also. Granted it takes several million years, but you would not have had the Jurassic Era animal monstrosities without a greater amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

 

[NExUS1g]

CO2 is an issue that needs to be dealt with, but it's blown out of proportion. Methane is a significant issue too that is being ignored.

 

[Geonerd]

Pure Marketing Monkey idiocy. (And [H] clickbait - shame on the editors.)

Unless they have some slick method for precipitating CO2 out of the exhaust gas, it will be vastly more cost efficient to make their batteries out of coal or petroleum residue, etc.

 

[mullet]

Yes, we have a process that cost 100K so we can make 10K worth of batteries.

NEXT!!!!!!!


BTW 9 out of 10 trees surveyed love the extra Co2.

 

[dceremuga]

CO2 is an issue that needs to be dealt with, but it's blown out of proportion. Methane is a significant issue too that is being ignored.

Not really. More CO2, more trees. More Trees, more O2. People tend to forget that the world we live really is self healing. Methane is being used to generate power in a lot of places.

 

[mullet]

Can you imagine the EPA being back in the days of the dinosaurs. Every tar pit would be a super fund clean up site and all of the oil oozing out of the ground.

 

[NExUS1g]

Not really. More CO2, more trees. More Trees, more O2. People tend to forget that the world we live really is self healing. Methane is being used to generate power in a lot of places.

We're also removing trees. The balance that existed before is no longer applicable. I'm not saying the planet is going to blow up. Humans are very adaptable and will likely survive whatever as the Earth's climate changes. That doesn't mean it's going to be an upsetting an inexpensive process that's avoidable. Methane used for energy is obtained from the ground, not air.