This is great! Speaking of organic chemistry breakthroughs, what would interest me is a way to efficiently turn methane into more interesting hydrocarbons. Th

This is great! Speaking of organic chemistry breakthroughs, what would interest me is a way to efficiently turn methane into more interesting hydrocarbons. There is lots of methane on Titan and perhaps Mars that would be great feedstock for all sorts of petrochemical processes if only we could easily turn it into naphtha and paraffins, etc. I guess there's Fischer-Tropsch, as you only need H2 and CO for that, but it is woefully inefficient. How about converting CO2 to value-added hydrocarbons? This article seems to say it's possible. Imagine that, using hydrocarbons as a storage battery for electricity used to power the reaction: "Heterogeneous catalytic CO2 conversion to value-added hydrocarbons" https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2010/EE/c001514h https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2010/EE/c0015...