Title: Amazing Discovery at Rice University: Machines That Change CO₂ Last 50 Times Longer!
A group of brilliant minds at Rice University found out something really cool. They learned that if you bubble CO₂ (that's carbon dioxide, the stuff we breathe out) through a light acid, it makes machines that change CO₂ into useful fuels work way better and last much longer. The best part? This neat trick stops salt from building up, which was a big problem before.
So why is this so awesome? Well, the salt was messing things up and stopping these machines from being used in the real world. But now, thanks to this discovery, the machines can keep going for more than 4,500 hours without getting jammed, and they can use common materials that are easy to find. This means we're a big step closer to using these machines to help the environment by changing CO₂ into something useful. How cool is that?