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Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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"The resulting powder closely resembles a commercial product that has been safely used for years to melt ice on highways and airports."
It has not been used as snow melt on highways... I fucking wish...
I have a 50lb bag of sodium formate sitting in my garage... It's not a common snow melt, it's a very premium (roughly 4x the price of rock salt at the retail end) snow melt that's much nicer to your cars, your pets (we use it because our poor dog has sensitive paws), your grass, your concrete... And it works way better.
Dumping mass tonnage at every highway maintenance yard instead of rock salt would be a massive benefit to vehicle longevity and the environment in general.
It's a really fucking good idea even without the fuel cell part of the deal :)