Morgan
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Nano-Spiked Ethanol
By concentrating the electric field he says.
https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-catalysts-convert-carbo...
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Maroboduus
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Title should read, "Nano spiked catalyst for converting CO2 to Ethanol"
Nano-spiked ethanol sounds like something they'd drink in a cheap science fiction film.
"Like having your brain bashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick."
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Metacelsus
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Here's the actual paper (which I'm glad to see is open-access):
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/slct.201601169/fu...
It looks quite interesting: producing anything with more than one carbon atom at high yields is quite a feat.
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