[ExI] Name for carbon project

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 04:22:45 UTC 2009


On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> quoted:

> Talk about a Eureka moment. Scientists at Sandia National Labs,
> seeking a means to create cheap and abundant hydrogen to power a
> hydrogen economy, realized they could use the same technology to
> "reverse-combust" CO2 back into fuel. Researchers still have to
> improve the efficiency of the system, but they recently demonstrated a
> working prototype of their "Sunshine to Petrol" machine that converts
> waste CO2 to carbon monoxide, and then syngas, consuming nothing but
> solar energy.
>

"Sunshine to Petrol" is pretty good, but Americans generally don't use the
term 'petrol.'

I was pretty close with my suggestion "Liquid Sunshine..."  :)
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