If a battery system is created based on this phenomenon, electricity can be produced by removing CO2. The system that the researchers invented very much resembles a fuel cell in which the reaction starts when CO2 is injected into the water, which contains the catalyst necessary for the reaction and the sodium metal cathode.
The team reports the system has a pretty high conversion efficiency at 50 percent and has operated for more than 1, hours without the electrodes sustaining any damage. Ideally, the system could be deployed to capture and convert emissions from fossil fuel-powered facilities into hydrogen, to be used in its turn as vehicle fuel. The old argument against internal combustion Hydrogen convertion is that more heat is created thus less electricity is generated.
What most people have to realize is that a large amount of any potential fuel cell energy is going to be used to heat water or to directly heat the home anyhow!
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