When life hands you carbon, suck it up and

[LunaSea]

Make carbon fiber!

This is cool, an economical way to turn collected CO2 into carbon nanofiber.

One-Pot Synthesis of Carbon Nanofibers from CO2
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02427

From the abstract-
Carbon nanofibers, CNFs, due to their superior strength, conductivity, flexibility, and durability have great potential as a material resource but still have limited use due to the cost intensive complexities of their synthesis. Herein, we report the high-yield and scalable electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO2 dissolved in molten carbonates into CNFs. It is demonstrated that the conversion of CO2 ? CCNF + O2 can be driven by efficient solar, as well as conventional, energy at inexpensive steel or nickel electrodes.


A less expensive source of CNFs will facilitate its adoption as a societal resource, and using carbon dioxide as a reactant to generate a value added product such as CNFs provides impetus to consume this greenhouse gas to mitigate climate change.