Carbon capture and storage or reuse is gaining traction amid intensifying efforts to curb the effect of climate change on the planet. Now, a Swiss-Norwegian team of researchers has gone a bold step further: they are proposing using CO2 as fuel in the production of methanol, to be used as an energy source instead of fossil fuel derivatives. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the team details their idea as follows: “We propose a combination of largely existing technologies to use…
