Diamonds could help slow climate change
date: 22/12/2016
Project: Diamond materials for the photocatalytic...
acronym: DIACAT
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The technology being developed by the EU-funded DIACAT project could help reduce emissions from power stations by capturing the carbon currently emitted as CO2 and transforming it into chemicals such as hydrocarbons or methanol. These could then be used as a fuel, for example to power cars, or as ingredients for new chemicals.
‘At the moment we use fossil fuels to produce chemicals or to fuel our cars or to heat our homes, and that produces as a side product CO2,’ said Professor Anke Krueger from Würzburg University, Germany, who leads the project.