In August, 2007 President Bush created a DARPA for Energy (DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). One of it’s goals was to turn carbon dioxide into fuel. By December, 2007 Sandia National Laboratories, where DARPA is located, announced the Sandia’s “Sunshine to Petrol” project which uses a “Counter Rotating RingReceiver Reactor Recuperator (CR5, for short), to break a carbon-oxygen bond in the carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide and oxygen in two distinct steps using concentrated solar power. DARPA eventually proved the technology and coupled with sequestered C02 from coal power plants or even your own car, this could be a real industry of C02 to gasoline. Watch this related video on Youtube.
Turning Problems into Solutions: C02 to Gasoline
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