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  "textContent": "An international team led by Penn State's Institute of Energy and the Environment Director Bruce Logan has developed a new reactor design that efficiently converts carbon dioxide and renewable electricity into methane—the primary component of natural gas—while scaling the system up by roughly an order of magnitude without sacrificing performance.",
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