A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production
It’s still in the world, instead of in a hole in the ground, and will go CO² the next opportunity.
This is the problem with oil; no matter what steps you do inbetween (be it fuel or plastic, or recycling/processing the plastic), it will still accelerate climate warming in the end.
According to the original paper, the C goes into “value-added organics such as formate, acetate, glycolate and glycolaldehyde dimer.”
So specifically not carbon dioxide, which is the problem gas.
It’s still in the world, instead of in a hole in the ground, and will go CO² the next opportunity.
This is the problem with oil; no matter what steps you do inbetween (be it fuel or plastic, or recycling/processing the plastic), it will still accelerate climate warming in the end.