{"id":58930,"date":"2020-06-25T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58930"},"modified":"2020-06-25T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:33:59","slug":"scientists-find-a-way-to-convert-co2-emissions-into-chemical-building-blocks-for-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/06\/25\/scientists-find-a-way-to-convert-co2-emissions-into-chemical-building-blocks-for-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find a way to convert CO2 emissions into chemical building blocks for fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Till now, it was believed that transforming harmful CO2 emissions into useful products is an expensive and complicated process. But a team of chemical engineers from UNSW, Sydney, has come up with a technology that helps convert harmful carbon dioxide emissions into chemical building blocks to make useful industrial products like fuel and plastics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If adopted on a large scale, the process could give the world breathing space as it transitions towards a green economy.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published recently in the journal\u00a0Advanced Energy Materials, Dr Rahman Daiyan and Dr Emma Lovell from\u00a0UNSW\u2019s School of Chemical Engineering detail a way of creating nanoparticles that promote conversion of waste carbon dioxide into useful industrial components.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say this method is cheaper and more scalable to the requirements of heavy industry than what is available today.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/engineers-convert-co2-emissions-into-chemical-building-blocks-for-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/engineers-convert-co2-emissions-into-chemical-building-blocks-for-fuel\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Till now, it was believed that transforming harmful CO2 emissions into useful products is an expensive and complicated process. But a team of chemical engineers from UNSW, Sydney, has come up with a technology that helps convert harmful carbon dioxide emissions into chemical building blocks to make useful industrial products like fuel and plastics. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}