# @uscdornsife on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BAKl0jcEWR0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13648727-uscdornsife-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-01-05T17:19:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** USC Dornsife (@USCDornsife) — https://gondola.cc/USCDornsife

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Today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen by about 40 percent above pre-industrial levels. USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute scientists, including Founding Director and Nobel Laureate George Olah and Director G.K. Surya Prakash, have developed an easy-to-make material that can scrub large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air. They hope to find a low-cost/low-energy method of turning the captured carbon dioxide into methanol — which can be burned as a fuel source and used as a chemical feedstock. #FrontlineScholars

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