Scientists Create Battery Uses CO2 To Make Energy To Tackle Global Warming

We are already too familiar with the happening of climate change (or global warming.) While it's the duty of each individual to help with the fight against global warming, researchers everywhere in the world are also working tirelessly to put a stop to global warming.

Just imagine that we could use the very same carbon responsible for global warming which we emitted into the atmosphere to create energy? That's just sound too good to be true right? Because that would be one stone at two birds, clean our planets and provide power for human's societies. Well, this target is being realized as a group of South Korea researchers is already having a concept that would work.

The researchers from UNIST (the National Institute of Science and Technology of Ulsan) had revealed a genius system that can dissolve the CO2 in an aqueous mixture to generate continuous power with hydrogen as the only by-product.

They said that they have copied the way our oceans absorb the CO2 to come up with this solution. During the procedure, CO2 will raise the acid level in the water. Then this increasing acid level will lead to an increase in the level of protons which will attract the electrons. And the flow of electrons works as a battery system to generate power.

Let's take a look at the concept battery, we have a separator (NASICON), an anode (catalysts) and a cathode (sodium metal). The anode will be submerged in the Aqueous Electrolyte and connects via a lead wire to the cathode. Once CO2 is inserted, the system will start generating power and hydrogen.

For the moment, the system is still on a very small scale and only has a 50% efficiency level. But with time, certainly, it could become one of the primary methods to create power for mankind.