As I read about this, my thought is that it may be cool technology to be able to do this, but I have a hard time seeing how it will be able to be used beneficially in car exhaust systems.
When dissociating carbon dioxide (CO2), one could have a partial dissociation to carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen, or a complete dissociation to carbon and oxygen. I assume that the partial dissociation to carbon monoxide and oxygen is not what they are touting, since this would be making things worse, not better (and would be doing the opposite of what a catalytic converter is doing). Also, since they state a complete elimination of exhaust fumes (and carbon monoxide would certainly be considered a fume), I assume that it is not carbon monoxide that is being formed.
Therefore, I will assume that this device converts carbon dioxide to carbon and oxygen. The difficulty I see in using this for car exhausts is: how are the carbon particles that are formed by this process to be handled? For every gallon of gasoline that is burned, approximately 5 lbs of carbon particulates would be formed.
For an industrial exhaust stack, I could see how you would have a system in place to separate and collect the solid carbon particles (which could then potentially be used for other applications), but how will they be handled in a car exhaust?
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