‘Diamonds from the sky’ approach turns CO2 into valuable products

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6. Molten carbonates have been widely explored in nuclear settings...

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...for a variety of purposes.

It wouldn't be characterized as a "breakthrough," though. It's as old as the hills in this setting.

As it happens, I often read papers that nominally involve solar thermal approaches to things like hydrogen cycles, waste processing, process heat, etc.

Many of these are useful only in the sense that they translate quite well to nuclear applications utilizing very high temperature reactors.

As a result of fear and ignorance however, high temp reactors are not being built, eliminating humanity's last best hope, meaning that all these papers are of no practical import.

The reason so many of these papers are written, despite the fact that the solar thermal industry is useless in addressing climate change, is that, given the poor science literacy of the general public, which translates into popular enthusiasm, if not practical focus on reality, for the solar industry, they do generate grants..

Thanks for your comment.