r/science • u/Wagamaga • Aug 06 '20
Chemistry Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel. Scientists have discovered a new electrocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into ethanol with very high energy efficiency, high selectivity for the desired final product and low cost.
https://www.anl.gov/article/turning-carbon-dioxide-into-liquid-fuel
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u/40for60 Aug 06 '20
There won't be very many non electric cars available to purchase in 5 to 7 years, just heavy trucks for special applications. The switch over is going to be very fast just like it was for phones. The very same complaints people have for electric cars are what they said about mobile phones in the early 2000's then the Iphone, 3g, nationwide service and price drops including free long distance made wide spread adoption explode with LIO batteries coming on later fixing the charging issues.
BTW it only took Sprint 4 years from announcing the investment in 4 G to starting to deploy. So in a 10 year period we went from analog mobile phones which are analogous to the Nissan Leaf to Iphones with LIO and 4G which are equal to the Model 3. 2000 to 2010.