Although turning carbon dioxide into graphene would not be cost-effective or energy efficient on Earth (right now), abundant power from solar cells aboard the International Space Station could provide the kick necessary to strip oxygen from the carbon dioxide. A process like this would also be able to take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn our own breath into organic electronics or a million other things in which uses for graphene could be found.
Luckily, there is a side benefit for us Earthlings as well. The physics of what happens in the combustion chamber is very similar to the method that scientists at Kansas State University used to create graphene, in what may become a scalable process that could be a step toward mass production. The resulting small explosion creates a pressure wave that dislodges the potato from the end of the combustion chamber, moving it up the nozzle of the PVC pipe, and into the air-often launching it tens of meters into the distance. Once the potato is in place, the chamber fueled with hair spray and then sealed, you can point the far end of the PVC pipe toward your target and discharge your battery to cause the spark plug to spark. Have you ever built a spud gun? Basically, if you take a one- to two-meter-long PVC pipe, create a combustion chamber at one end using a spark plug and a quick-sealing endcap, stuff a potato in the other end, and fill the now sealed combustion chamber with a flammable vapor (hair spray is good), then you have a spud gun. Charlie told CBC Canada that the number of bones he and his team collected amounted to two almost-complete skeletons with teeth, ribs, legs and more.Are dangerous chemicals, complex machines, and multistep chemical reactions and processes too complex for your tastes? Then consider this approach, discovered at Kansas State University, where they produced graphene by creating an explosion. As the team of excavators went on to stumble upon more and more bones of the mammoth, they stopped their work to focus on the fossils.
Charlie posted the picture of his discovery on his Instagram handle last week as he unearthed the giant fossil. According to the report, Charlie and his co-worker were working with the team of excavators two weeks ago, moving mud at the mine site when they found a tusk of the ancient animal. Speaking to CBC Canada, Charlie said that once he discovered the first part of the mammoth’s fossil, he went on to find other parts like ribs, teeth, and all kinds of things. The fossils discovered by Charlie go on to show how the ancient animal from the Ice Age once used to tread on the same territory. The discovery was made in northwest Canada, which is known for its wild, mountainous topography. It was a usual day for placer miner, Trey Charlie, at the Little Flake Mine on the Indian River of the Yukon region in Canada, before he stumbled upon a well-preserved fossil of a mammoth.