New method of producing electricity from green house gas co2 has been devised by the scientists. As described in an article of ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, the method uses CO2 from electric power plant and other smokestacks as the raw material for making electricity.
According to the statistics electric-power-generating stations worldwide release about 12 billion tons of CO2 annually from combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. Home and commercial heating produces another 11 billion tons. Smokestacks gas from a typical coal-fired plant contains about 10% CO2, which not only goes to waste, but also it induces the global warming.
Bert Hamelers' (Ph.D.) team have found a way to change that trash into treasure. They devised a technology where this waste green hose gas CO2 would react with water or other fluid following up a special process. This produces a flow of electrons that make up electric current. It could produce about 1,570 kilowatts of additional electricity annually if used to harvest CO2 from power plants, industry and residences. That's a big achievement.
Amazing! As much the green house gas produced will be produced at the same time more than half of it will consumed. Let's see when the world wide nations pay attention to this unique invention.
[Source : Phys.org]
