New Use for Carbon Dioxide?

One of the big problems with burning fossil fuel, but especially coal, is the amount of CO2 produced. Ecogeek is reporting a new artificial photosynthesis process that converts the CO2 to CO (carbon monoxide) and O2 (oxygen) using the power of the sun. Carbon monoxide is much more reactive than CO2 and can be used to produce fuels.

Miracle processes come and go, and usually end up with some significant problem like catalyst degradation, or the inability to scale up production to handle huge amounts of CO2. Nevertheless, I think it's instructive for this reason - rather than sequester CO2, we should be looking at options for reforming it and using it, particularly from power plants that produce large quantities of carbon dioxide at one location.