“We can remove the greenhouse gas CO₂ from the environment and reintroduce it into a sustainable carbon cycle,” explained Professor Carsten Streb from the JGU Department of Chemistry. His research group has shown how carbon dioxide can be converted to ethanol by means of electrocatalysis.
Assuming green electricity is used for this process, it would also be sustainable—and food crops currently used to produce ethanol for fuels would be available for food again. According to Carsten Streb, the conversion technique, which has so far been carried out on a laboratory scale, could also be realized on a larger scale. The research results have been published in ACS Catalysis.
