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Carbon dioxide has impacted the world’s climate for millions of years, helping to establish our atmosphere and setting our global thermostat. But when there is too much, there are negative consequences. What if you could use electricity to transform that excess carbon dioxide into more useful materials? We’ll explore in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s “Discovery Files”.
Excess amounts of greenhouse gases collect in our atmosphere where they absorb and radiate heat. Carbon dioxide also collects in the world’s oceans, where it raises the acidity of the water, impacting the creatures that call it home.
But at Case Western Reserve, NSF supported chemical engineers are finding new ways to recycle carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels.
The team developed special room-temperature ionic liquids that, when combined with electricity, start a complex chemical reaction that can effectively repurpose carbon dioxide. They found they could do it with less energy than previous work while avoiding unwanted side reactions.
By developing advanced electrochemical techniques to react carbon dioxide, the team is working to meet carbon reduction goals while creating industrially relevant products. The work will be further refined to better control chemical reactions and may one day be broadly used to convert greenhouse gases into renewable fuel sources.
To hear more science and engineering news, including the researchers making it, subscribe to "NSF's Discovery Files" podcast.
Carbon dioxide has impacted the world’s climate for millions of years, helping to establish our atmosphere and setting our global thermostat. But when there is too much, there are negative consequences. What if you could use electricity to transform that excess carbon dioxide into more useful materials? We’ll explore in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s “Discovery Files”.
Excess amounts of greenhouse gases collect in our atmosphere where they absorb and radiate heat. Carbon dioxide also collects in the world’s oceans, where it raises the acidity of the water, impacting the creatures that call it home.
But at Case Western Reserve, NSF supported chemical engineers are finding new ways to recycle carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels.
The team developed special room-temperature ionic liquids that, when combined with electricity, start a complex chemical reaction that can effectively repurpose carbon dioxide. They found they could do it with less energy than previous work while avoiding unwanted side reactions.
By developing advanced electrochemical techniques to react carbon dioxide, the team is working to meet carbon reduction goals while creating industrially relevant products. The work will be further refined to better control chemical reactions and may one day be broadly used to convert greenhouse gases into renewable fuel sources.
To hear more science and engineering news, including the researchers making it, subscribe to "NSF's Discovery Files" podcast.
![Solar System Alignment Explained [Planetary Parade]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eTIibe1j6kE/hqdefault.jpg "Solar System Alignment Explained [Planetary Parade]
On June 3rd, a spectacular planetary alignment will be viewable from Earths sky. Planetary parade is the alignment of 3 to 8 planets on the same side of the sun, on the sky from Earth. We see them lined up more or less in a straight line across the sky. There can be situations where all of the planets in the solar system are lined up on one side of the sun.
Not all of the planets are visible without a telescope, but many of them are. In this particular planetary parade, its likely that well be able to see Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn but you would need a telescope to see Uranus and Neptune.
#space #astro #universe #planet #planets #explainervideo #explained #explain
00:00 Planetary Parade
00:14 Explained
00:29 Visible Planets
00:50 Solar System Alignment
01:12 Planets vs. Stars
01:34 Mars
02:16 Jupiter
03:01 Saturn
03:17 Rings of Saturn
04:06 Solar System
04:18 Orbital Plane
04:51 Orbit Around the Star")
