All I can say is that it's one of the projects that I am working on. Whats funny is that all my projects are either using or creating plasma and electrostatic energy.
I am looking into making hydrocarbons with items that I have available. I don't know the effort, or the energy required. I just started thinking about this not too long ago.
I do know that hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon are very readily available on this earth. Why not convert H2O and CO2 into CH4(methane) + O2 + O2, or CH4O(methanol) + O3? Or ethanol?
Club soda...
in a different form, would kill you, or at least make you go blind if it was broken down into methanol.
The presence of a catalyst and some heat might recombine these molecules too, time will tell.
Here is a clip that talks about something similar:
Conversion of CO2 to CO and Hydrocarbons by Plasma Reaction
J. Electrochem. Soc., Volume 148, Issue 5, pp. D55-D59 (May 2001)
Z. Yoshida, H. Yosue, and G. Nogami
Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan
(Revised December 20, 2000 )
Electrochemical and chemical reactions of CO2 with H2 in a gas phase were studied in an attempt to synthesize hydrocarbons by plasma reactions. When plasma was fired in a CO2 gas alone, the only product detected was CO, showing that the chemical decomposition of CO2 is dominant in the plasma phase. When H2 was guided into the reaction chamber, hydrocarbons such as methane (CH4), ethylene (C2H4), and ethane (C2H6) could be produced. Hydrocarbon formation was found to be more effective on the Cu electrode than on the Fe electrode, implying that an electrode material and then the electrode reactions can also affect the plasma reaction taking place among highly excited species. Hydrocarbons were effectively formed when the flow rate of H2 to CO2 exceeded three, in accordance with the expected chemical formulas of hydrocarbon formation. ©2001 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.
Maybe some nickel and some heat?
This will be fun to research.
Bzzz...