The excessive and growing amount of carbon dioxide that resides within the atmosphere has very harmful effects on the Earth as a whole. Humanity plays a rather large role within the reasons why the earth’s atmospheric CO2 level is aggressively increasing. Factories, cars, and power plants are just a few examples of a long list of human contributions to this rapidly expanding, global problem. The problem with the fast growth of atmospheric carbon-dioxide is that it majorly contributes to global warming. Modern scientists have developed a way to reduce the Earth’s atmospheric CO2 content, while also benefiting humanity’s industrial life. If copper, hydrogen and a vigorous electrical current are present within the same reaction, the phenomenon known as “Copper foam” is then produced. Furthermore, the hydrogen bubbles, during the reaction, causes the copper to transform into variously sized, spongy pores. Copper foam has the ability to transform CO2 into useful industrial chemicals and reduce the amount of CO2 at the same time. Scientists discovered this through an electrochemical reaction consisting of copper foam and carbon dioxide within water. The reaction led to the production of formic acid and the hydrocarbon known as propylene. Formic acid is used in the production of Biofuels, which can be used as vehicle-fuel that pollutes the environment at a far smaller scale than petroleum based vehicle-fuels. In turn, this could lead to a wider use of biofuels and its resultant would be the further reduction of the atmosphere’s CO2 content. On another note, many factories, power plants, and other methods of electrical generation require the use of fossil fuels to operate machinery and successfully complete their tasks. However, fossil fuels are not renewable and humanity has access to only a finite amount. Furthermore, scientists discovered that the production of certain compounds from the electrochemical reaction of copper foam and carbon water is completely based on the size and depth of the foam’s spongy pores. This means that scientists can intentionally alter the diameter and depth of the copper foam’s pores to create a particular compound. Thus, this could possibly lead to the production of a sustainable resource that could reduce the atmospheric CO2 content, while also providing factories, power plants, etc. with a sustainable energy source that meets their needs.
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