Response to "comment on Experimental observation of carbon dioxide reduction in exhaust gas from hydrocarbon fuel burning' " [Phys. Plasmas 17, 014701 (2010)]

Abstract

A high-voltage cathode initiates an electron emission, resulting in a reduction in the carbon dioxide concentration in exhaust gas from the burning of hydrocarbon fuel. Assuming that the observed carbon dioxide reduction is originated from the molecular decomposition, the energy needed for the endothermic reaction of this carbon dioxide reduction may stem primarily from the internal energy reduction in the exhaust gas in accordance of the first law of the thermodynamics. An oxygen increase due to the reduction in carbon dioxide in a discharge gas was observed in real time. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.