Want Efficient Energy? Try Carbon Dioxide-Powered Turbines

Published: May 30, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

Carbon dioxide is one hell of a molecule. Perhaps you only know it as the stuff humans exhaleand plants inhale, or the primary culprit for climate change. But CO is capable of so much more. For instance, some engineers think it could help make the power industry a little greener. Now, you\u2019re probably thinking this is atwist on carbon capture and storage. Nope. It\u2019s about turbine generators\u2014the enormous machines that convert heat into electricity.