Synthetic Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 05:26:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Electrochemical Cell Can Make Synthetic Fuel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electrochemical-cell-will-synthetic-fuel-20160826/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electrochemical-cell-will-synthetic-fuel-20160826/#respond Sun, 28 Aug 2016 05:26:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60500 Scientists at the University of Illinois may have found a way to move away from the use of fossil fuels and towards synthetically producing fuel via an electrochemical cell that houses three electrodes. This cell is designed to behave in similar ways that a plant would by gaining energy from light. Plants can easily produce […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electrochemical-cell-will-synthetic-fuel-20160826/feed/ 0 60500 China’s Plans to Build Environmentally-Damaging Coal-Powered Natural Gas Plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chine-coal-powered-natural-gas-plants-20130925/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chine-coal-powered-natural-gas-plants-20130925/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:02:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41899 China is currently in the process of planning synthetic natural gas plants, which are powered by coal. Though this could be good for China’s energy security, the results could be environmentally devastating. A new study by Researchers from Duke University have determined this process would produce seven times the greenhouse gas emissions, consume 100 times […]

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