Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Crowd oil not crude oil

  • Roland Dittmeyer,
  • Michael Klumpp,
  • Paul Kant,
  • Geoffrey Ozin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09685-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Climate change represents an existential, global threat to humanity, yet its delocalized nature complicates climate action. Here, the authors propose retrofitting air conditioning units as integrated, scalable, and renewable-powered devices capable of decentralized CO2 conversion and energy democratization.