A New Way to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel—More Cleanly Than Before

A New Way to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel—More Cleanly Than Before

For decades, chemists have chased a tantalizing idea: take carbon dioxide—the same heat-trapping gas driving climate change—and turn it back into something useful. Not just lock it away, but recycle it into fuels or chemicals we already depend on. A new study suggests that goal may be closer than it looks. Researchers in China have developed a new catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO₂) into methanol, a widely used fuel and industrial chemic…