Scientists from Nanjing University, Yingfang Yao and Zhigang Zou, are designing a mechanism called “extraterrestrial photosynthesis” that aims to take advantage of aggregates on the lunar surface that could work as catalysts to produce products such as oxygen and carbon dioxide.

The researchers want to take advantage of the most abundant resources on the moon, the lunar soil and solar radiation. The Moon’s soil has active compounds, which can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, according to Chinese studies published in the journal Joule.

The analysis carried out by the scientists on the lunar soil sample showed that it contains substances rich in iron and titanium “that could function as catalysts to manufacture desired products, such as oxygen, using sunlight and carbon dioxide.”

According to researchers, with the extraterrestrial photosynthesis strategy the process will allow the production of hydrocarbons such as methane, which could be used as fuel, but this strategy will not use “external energy, but sunlight, to produce a series of desirable products, such as water, oxygen and fuel, which could support life on a lunar base.”

According to Yingfang Yao, the catalytic efficiency of the lunar soil is lower than that of the catalysts available on Earth. However, the group of researchers “is testing different approaches to improve the design, such as melting the lunar soil into a high-entropy nanostructured material, which is a better catalyst.”

M. Rodríguez

Source: tribunasalamanca.com

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The National Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea invented BeeVi, a toilet that pays cryptocurrencies to anyone who uses it.

In mid-July, the Institute presented this very new toilet that has transformed the “hygienic dynamics” to the students of the Uslan University campus in South Korea, because everyone who uses BeeVi obtains Ggool units, they are a cryptocurrency authorized to purchase products in some university stores.

Each person will receive 10 Ggool a day, with which they can buy books, coffee, fruits and even instant noodles. They just have to choose the products and scan the QR code to cancel with their crypto.

Cho Jae-weon, a professor responsible for leading the research and manufacturing of the invention, explained that the goal of creating the toilet is to convert human waste into compost and biogas for different uses.

According to Cho Jae-Weon, “feces have a precious value to produce energy and compost.” Therefore, the BeeVi toilet was presented as an “ecological and sustainable” option for the generation of combustible energy.

The BeeVi toilet also reduces the use of water, because it uses a vacuum pump to send the feces to an underground tank, where the microorganisms decompose the waste into methane that is converted into a “source of energy for the building, feeding a gas stove, a hot water boiler and a solid oxide fuel cell.

M. Rodríguez

With information from national media and social networks

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