Don't destroy my fantasy -- please.

I dont listen anymore to people hawking various "crises". They all have hidden agendas. If there is a real crisis, there would be lots of evidence that it is really there and its something that we can affect.

Climate has changed a LOT over thousands of years and it wont stop now. Its part of the way things are.

This is history changing! It is more important than Trump's sex life and Hillary's crimes. No one will hear much about it, however, and it being applied on a grand scale will be iffy indeed. Especially if the sickly crooked woman becomes president.

Seems a discovery with super implications. That it produces ethanol seems not necessarily a good thing, tho.
The mention of tying this in with "wind and solar", I doubt that. They are only good as far as they go, which is a very long distance empty so far.

Hmmm... I remember reading in one of those science books that the earth's atmosphere was at one time primarily Methane and CO2... and during photosynthesis that was converted to a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere.

Here's this kid's question - Is the Venusian atmosphere a product of runaway greenhouse gas emissions, or is it a primordial atmosphere waiting for the infusion of a durable conversion medium (Chlorophyll precursors, maybe?) to do what those same precursors did to Earth?

Mind you I am not a college trained scientist, but I also don't forget something I learned back in High School, even if it WAS pre-Communist-Corps...

Without CO2, vegetation would not be providing the world with oxygen and we'd all freaking die.
I'd call that exchange the most essential balance of nature there is.

Sounds like they have solved. Climate,energy, and water problems in one technology. I believe in innovation. But I don't think there's a free lunch.

Don't worry, the IPCC just makes up the data that they need.

That's easy, just mix ethanol with about 10 parts air, then put a spark to it. You get CO2 and H2O. Now can I get millions of dollars in government grants to research the process?

All that's needed is an assertion. Facts be damned. Besides, everyone knows that carbon dioxide is the driver of climate, in the face of the fact that it's been warmer in the past than now.

Remember "Nuclear Fusion" in a Mason jar! Just because you can do something in the lab....does not mean it is practical.

Sounds like it's water flowing uphill. Yes, energy details omitted, which is suspicious. "1.2 volts of current" immediately tells us the writer has no understanding of physics.

Next it will be lead into gold.

No discussion on the ratio of the watts of electricity [used to "Create" the Ethanol] to the Equivalent watts of energy available in the Ethanol. A typical "Moonbeams and Unicorns" science story.

" Last month, we hit the highest levels of atmospheric CO2 in 4 million years, and it’s now permanent, meaning we’ll never be able to drop to 'safe' levels again."

Hmmm...

Interesting that she's got CO2 readings that go back 4 million years; I didn't know that the IPCC kept data that long.

And since she claims the CO2 levels are permanent, I guess that means that every plant on earth is saturated, and can't absorb any more, and also that no new plants would ever be able to absorb CO2 from the air.

Would have been nice if she'd at least tried to back one of those two statements up.

Frankly, our current levels are safe. I worry that current levels are too low.

Hmmm...maybe using the carbon from coal plant emissions but using any other carbon source might just put life in danger...in many cases around large crop plantings the present carbon level is low for what the plants need...it's really not nice to screw with mother nature.

Don't you just love it when something marvelous is discovered and is presented in such a completely biased way ?
Start with the photo at the top. Completely biased rubbish that has NOTHING to do with the article topic.
Then the author relates scientifically unsupportable claptrap rubbish again and again.

AJA, maybe you should look at this article to post instead of the one you posted:
It one has a nice explanatory video embedded:
http://newatlas.com/co2-ethanol-nanop...

thanks for bringing this technology to our attention, AJA;^)

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
It is food for vegetation, all other forms of live on earth depend on vegetation.
This idea can be yet another excuse to increase taxation on all and subsidies to looters.

Thanks for the heads-up. A professor down the hall and two of his students are developing a competing process for turning CO2 into ethanol.