A research team at Illinois Institute of Technology has developed an innovative electrolyzer that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into renewable propane fuel.
    • Apetitenevermind@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I was walking through canadain tire, while looking for “propane and propane accessories” and said just that. There was another person who I heard chuckle as we crossed paths, they knew whats up. Was it you by chance?

  • cheeseburger@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    10 months ago

    I hope this can be a consumer product I could use to trickle charge my propane tanks. $33 to refill a 20lb tank is killing me.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I hope so, too, but I don’t think that it will. Odds are that the process requires a higher concentration of CO₂ than just the 0.4% in atmospheric air, so this would be only viable in industrial plants - specially the ones producing steel and quicklime.

      Another concern that I have is that the process likely requires hydrogen.