Magda Barecka is envisioning a world without fossil fuels.
An assistant professor of chemical engineering and chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Barecka says that the aim of her research is to enable “our society to function, to have all the chemicals that we need, without using fossil fuels.”
Like alchemists, Barecka and her team transform one thing into another — but instead of lead into gold, they transform carbon dioxide into ethanol.
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