Very interesting breakthrough recently that could allow us to use carbon dioxide as fuel.

Organic, carbon-based molecules generally have very strong bonds.  Carbon likes to hang on to its bonded atoms tighter than MJ’s grip on a 12-year-old, so cleaving such molecules is usually more work than it’s worth.

But scientists at Max Planck Institute have managed to do it with much less energy.  Increasing the energy yield could mean that eventually we can pull the very byproduct of our fossil fuel usage out of the atmosphere and use it, in turn, as fuel.

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