Category: flow battery

  A flawed but nonetheless impressive and detailed report just out from a substantial if techie news outlet prompts the thought: what is it about chemistry that turns off so many reporters? Why don't science journalists more often take chemistry and chemical engineering stories to a deep enough level to give readers a sense of what the atoms and molecules in today's incredible industrial complex are doing with one another? Here's the yarn:

• Ars Technica - Melissae Fellet: The promises and pitfalls of carbon capture / Although a few projects are going forward, the tech remains stuck in neutral ;

  The topic has gotten sporadic interest over the last decade or two from large, general-interest dailies and other news agencies. It is the idea that if only we could stuff  CO2 back deep in the ground whence its...