US Muslim scientists invent artificial photosynthesis

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30 Jul 2016, 7:02 am

:arrow: Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel
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Amin Salehi-Khojin (left), UIC assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, and postdoctoral researcher Mohammad Asadi with their breakthrough solar cell that converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into syngas.

If Trump's hate policies were already in effect, the world might have lost what is potentially the greatest scientific discovery of the 21st Century. Not only does the new method produce energy using sunlight as a catalyst - it also removes carbon from the atmosphere in the process.


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30 Jul 2016, 7:13 am

Of course, I would like to see replication and corroboration, but dagnammit! this sounds absolutely groundbreaking!


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31 Jul 2016, 4:22 am

The actual Science report is behind a paywall, but they have provided a 40+ page pdf of supplementary material.
:arrow: Materials/Methods, Supplementary Text, Tables, Figures, and/or References Materials and Methods Figs. S1 to S27 Tables S1 to S7 References


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02 Aug 2016, 8:30 pm

I don`t care.