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Physicists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy have developed an electrochemical process that converts carbon dioxide - CO2 - into ethanol, that is, ethyl alcohol (Ellichipuram, 2016). The discovery, as the scientists themselves admitted to the official ORNL website, is largely accidental: “We actually discovered by chance that this material works the way it works. Initially, we just wanted to implement the first step in this reaction, but during the experiments we quickly realized that the catalyst conducts the entire reaction itself, without intervention from our side.” (Song, Peng, Hensley, Bonnesen, Liang, Wu, Meyer, Chi, Ma, Sumpter, & Rondinone, 2016).