News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane. Parent comment

Re:Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane by adastra22 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @06:12PM (#40900894)
Plastics (a petroleum product) are not useless.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane by dzhiurgis on Sunday July 07, 2024 @06:39PM (#40901084)
Ok that's fair. Can they made by oil byproducts only or can it be eventually synthesised from CO2?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane by actionfromafar on Sunday July 07, 2024 @06:45PM (#40901117)
You can synthesise basically anything from CO2 and hydrogen. You can get syn-crude which can the be treated the same as regular crude. If we had "unlimited" electricity we could make basically anything from air and water.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane by throwaway173738 on Monday July 08, 2024 @12:39AM (#40902648)
I’d just like to support this by saying that this is what plants and micro-organisms do. They make many of our chemicals from air and water.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane by adastra22 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @10:02PM (#40902040)
Yes, it's just cheaper to pump it out of the ground in a nearly ready-made state.
[ Parent | on HN ]