Dr. Elena Vance stood before a transparent tank the size of a shipping container. Inside, a forest of jagged, midnight-blue electrodes pulsed with a faint, rhythmic glow. This wasn't the "battery in a lemon" experiment from grade school. This was the front line of the Great Decarbonization. "Ready to breathe?" she whispered.
"Look at the readout," her assistant, Marcus, said, his voice hushed. "It’s not just ethanol anymore." modern electrochemistry
Elena looked. The sensors confirmed it: they were producing high-density aviation fuel out of thin air and seawater. a forest of jagged