A Renewable Twist on Fossil Fuels

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May 16, 2011

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by Tracey Bryant (University of Delaware) Pulling valuable fuels out of thin air? It sounds like magic, but Joel Rosenthal, a chemist at the University of Delaware, is working to transform carbon dioxide (CO₂), a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, into gas for your car and clean-energy future fuels.
…Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a consortium of 98 Ph.D.-granting universities, of which UD is a member, has selected Rosenthal to receive the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award to pursue the novel research. Rosenthal is one of 30 award winners nationwide.
The competitive award, which provides $5,000 in seed funding from ORAU and $5,000 in matching funding from the faculty member’s university, is intended to enrich the research and educational growth of young faculty and serve as a springboard to new funding opportunities.
Rosenthal and his team are designing electrocatalysts from metals such as nickel and palladium that will freely give away electrons when they react with carbon dioxide, thus chemically reducing this greenhouse gas into energy-rich carbon monoxide or methanol. READ MORE and MORE (Science Daily)

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