Okay, that's pretty impressive.
In promising news for our humanity-burdened planet, a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge say they've built a machine that transforms both CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuel and other valuable materials, using only energy from the Sun to do so.
"A solar-driven technology that could help to address plastic pollution and greenhouse gases at the same time," added study coauthor and fellow Cambridge chemist Subhajit Bhattacharjee, "could be a game-changer in the development of a circular economy.
Excitingly, when testing materials under normal pressures and temperatures, the photoelectrochemical system was able to turn PET plastic bottles and CO2 into several kinds of cabon-based fuels and other sought-after compounds, including synthetic gas — a key component of sustainable liquid fuels — and glycolic acid, a chemical beloved by skincare companies.
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